Novalesa

Novalesa
Country	Italy
region	Piedmont
Metropolitan city	Turin  (TO)
Coordinates	45 ° 11 ′  N , 7 ° 1 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  E
height	828  m slm
surface	28 km²
Residents	526 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	19 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	10050
prefix	0122
ISTAT number	001169
Popular name	Novalicensi
Patron saint	The apostle Peter
Website	Novalesa

Novalesa from the west

Novalesa ( Occitan Nonalésa , French Novalaise , Piedmontese Novalèisa ) is a municipality with 526 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Italian metropolitan city of Turin (TO), Piedmont region . The place originally goes back to the monastery of the same name.

geography

Novalesa is a member of the mountain commune Comunità Montana Bassa Valle di Susa e Val Cenischia . The place is located in northwestern Italy, between Graian and Cottian Alps in Val Cenischia, a side valley of the Susa valley , which is dominated by the Rocciamelone . Immediately to the north, the Mont Cenis Alpine pass leads to Lanslebourg in France .

The neighboring municipalities are Bessans and Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis in France and Mompantero , Moncenisio , Usseglio and Venaus in Italy .

history

Novalesa Abbey

The Abbey Novalesa was 726 by a certain Abbo donated († 739 or shortly thereafter), consisting of a Gallo-Roman, the then Frankish house Meier Charles Martel came (689-741) very close family. After his death, Abbo bequeathed his extensive property to the monastery. When he crossed the Alps in 773, Charlemagne stayed briefly in the Novalesa monastery, and after the successful campaign against the Lombards , the abbey was under his protection, and later that of his grandson Lothar .

In the 9th century, the abbey had to accept large land cessions to found a hospice on Mont Cenis , but was compensated by Ludwig the Pious . Barely a century later, the monks fled the Saracens to Turin . The Novalesa priory was in constant conflict with the Margraves of Turin over the ownership of areas in the Arc ( Maurienne ) and Isèretal ( Tarentaise ) valleys. At the beginning of the 13th century, Count Thomas I of Savoy finally placed the hospice at Mont Cenis under the monastery.

water falls

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  Rio Claretto waterfall

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  Coda di Cavallo waterfall

Web links

Commons : Novalesa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: The Chronicle of the Monastery  - Sources and Full Texts (Latin)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.