Sant'Ambrogio di Torino

Sant'Ambrogio di Torino
Country	Italy
region	Piedmont
Metropolitan city	Turin (TO)
Coordinates	45 ° 6 ′ N , 7 ° 22 ′ E Coordinates: 45 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ N , 7 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E
height	356 m slm
surface	8.59 km²
Residents	4,711 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	548 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	10057
prefix	011
ISTAT number	001255
Popular name	Santambrogesi
Patron saint	San Giovanni Vincenzo
Website	Sant'Ambrogio di Torino

Sant'Ambrogio di Torino ( Piedmontese Sant Ambreus ) is a municipality with 4711 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Italian metropolitan city of Turin (TO), Piedmont region . She is a member of the mountain commune Comunità Montana Bassa Valle di Susa e Val Cenischia .

Panorama of Monte Musinè

Sacra di S. Michele

Via Umberto I (main urban street) in Sant'Ambrogio di Torino

Sant'Ambrogio di Torino winter panorama with the Sacra di San Michele

Culture

Places of interest

Sant'Ambrogio di Torino still preserves numerous evidence of the Middle Ages, the Abbey Palace of Sant'Ambrogio, the medieval (1176) and the square wall construction from the 13th century are particularly noteworthy. The Palazzo del Feudo di Sant'Ambrogio, built in the 13th century, was expanded in the 18th century. the bell tower of Sant'Ambrogio (11th century); the city tower (13th century) and the Sant'Ambrogio wall tower (13th century).

The most recent buildings include the Palazzo Comunale (1871) in Piazza XXV Aprile, the industrial complex by Maglificio Fratelli Bosio (1871) and the Antiche Mura Theater (19th century). There are numerous religious buildings in the municipality, the most important of which is the millennial Abbey of Sacra di San Michele , built between 983 and 987, below Borgata San Pietro is in the sanctuary of the Madonna of Fatima, built in the year Dedicated in 1715 as the Church of Santa Ana and in 1943 it became the first Italian shrine to the Virgin of Fatima, the Church of San Juan Vicente, built in 1763 by the architect Bernardo Vittone, the Church of San Rocco, from the seventeenth century, and now the “San Rocco Cultural Center”, and the Church of Our Lady of Grace, 1720.

There are still the ruins of the Church of San Pietro from the eleventh century and located in the San Pietro district, while the thirteenth century was an old Roman church that can still be seen the trace in Piazza IV Novembre.

Historical documents

The Historical Archive of the Municipality of Sant'Ambrogio di Torino keeps documents dating back to 1553. The archive of the Parish of San Giovanni Vincenzo begins in 1580, when the parish became independent from the Sacra di San Michele.

Since 1810, the parish of San Giovanni Vincenzo in Sant'Ambrogio di Torino, has taken care of the preservation of the Breviary of San Michele della Chiusa , a liturgical text from 1315 in two volumes that shows the annual cycle of prayers of the monks Sacra di San Michele , and containing parts of melodies sung with notes typical of this monastery, with forms not found in Gregorian texts of other monasteries.

geography

Sant'Ambrogio is located at the eastern exit of the Susa Valley , about 25 kilometers west of Turin .

The neighboring municipalities are Caprie , Villar Dora , Chiusa di San Michele , Avigliana and Valgioie .

Population development

Source ISTAT

Attractions

The former monastery of Sacra di San Michele is partly located on the area of the village.

Partnerships

The municipality is with the homonymous Italy | Italian municipalities

connected in partnership.

Sons and daughters of the place

Renato Boccardo (* 1952), Roman Catholic Archbishop

Individual evidence

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

Web links

Commons : Sant'Ambrogio di Torino - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Information at comuni-italiani.it (Italian)

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