The via the abbots is a path that connects Bobbio with the city of Rome. Was covered by the monks of the abbey of St. Columbanus of Bobbio to travel to visit the Pope and for the control and trade with the possessions of the monastery that stretched as far as Tuscany.
History
This street was of great importance to communications between the north and Rome through the monasteries of the cornerstones formats: Bobbio, Gravago, Torresana Court, and Pontremoli, the foundation of the Abbey of St. Columban Bobbio, in 614 and his monastic estate until it started declining after the year one thousand. Only after the Rotar Lombard king conquered the fortress of Cisa, previously controlled by the Byzantines, [1] between the late seventh century and the beginning of the next step of the mountain Bardone (current step of the Cisa) became feasible and the most popular route was the one of Via Francigena. The importance of the monastery of St. Columba went beyond the religious, however, conspicuous for the burial of St. Columban, was center of cultural diffusion, its scriptorium produced mined and guarded codes, economic power, having jurisdiction over extended possessions, political influence strong support for the real and the caliber of its abbots were of European origin.
The economic power of the monastery of interest sparked battles between bishops and communes, in the seventh century to the twelfth century, the travels of abbots in Rome, to obtain confirmation of power, ownership and autonomy of the monastery, were frequent among them include that of Abbot Bertulfo who went to Rome in 628 by Pope Honorius I for the bubble of autonomy against the claims of Bishop of Tortona Probo first case of exemption of an abbey from episcopal jurisdiction [2] and that of 'Abbot Bobuleno , Rotari sent by the king in 643 in Rome by Pope Theodore . The autonomy of the monastery no longer only in the thirteenth century, when it passes under the power of the Bishop of Bobbio.
The Irish pilgrims
The visit of the tomb of Saint Columba was an obligatory stop in the pilgrimage to Rome for travelers in Ireland, already in 862 the monks of Bobbio welcome these pilgrims drawn into the hospice at the church of Santa Brigida in Piacenza.
Route
The road ran through the media Trebbia high val Nure, passed in the valley through the Val Ceno of Taro to descend into the valley of the Magra for a total of 105 Km .
Bobbio-Boccolo de 'rates
exact route of the first part I am not certain documents were found, leaving the valley Thresh, probably going from Coli, through the high val Nure Mareto and after passing through the ford of the river Nure went back to Groppazzolo for the pass and down into the valley of Linguadà Ceno, through Boccolo de 'rates where there was hospice (xenodochio) St. Peter's under the control of [3] .
Boccolo de 'Bardi-Rates-Borgotaro
The road entering the valley through the Ceno Bardi (Lombard fortress), where he was part of the way of the monasteries registered (from the monastery of Val di Tolla to step up to the Bardi and Pellizzone to Gravago), going Noveglia of the valley, a tributary of Ceno, touched Gravaglia monastery founded in 737 and guarded by a fort, which declined in Borgo Val di Taro where the monastery of Bobbio had the curtis Turrexana the Turris Roman controlled settlement: the passage through a bridge on the river Taro, passing the mouth of the Val Ceno and the road to Pontremoli.
Borgotaro-Pontremoli
Borgotaro two road goes from the watershed via the montis Burgalis Early Medieval [4] with the Hospice of San Bartolomeo on the pass and the way of the Borgalli Brattello, medieval, both went down to Pontremoli. The city, which was fortified, had the monastery of St. John and St. Columba's Church built by the monks of Bobbio the confluence of the Magra and Verde, now demolished.
The way today
The track is now covered on foot or horseback, with little variation from the historic route, due to landslides and road sections that no longer exist. The entire trip was published in the Travel Guide Riding Trails Emilia-Romagna in 2003 and is located on the maps:
- stretch of Bobbio-Bruzzi map TCI \\ OTP 1:50.000 GEA
- stretch-Bruzzi-Bardi Comune di Bardi CAI Osacca cartography 1:25.000
- tract Osacca Borgotaro-CAI-Pontremoli mapping Emilia-Romagna (sheet 2 and 3) 1:50.000
On 3 and 4 May 2008 is covered in two days from the first edition of the race 105 The Abbots Way Ultra Trail 2008.
Notes
- G Redoano Coppedè the roads of the Tuscan-Ligurian-Emilian proceedings of the conference Borgo Taro 1998
- M. Tosi, S. Columbanus of Bobbio, in: Benedictine Monasteries in Emilia Romagna, edited by G. Spinelu, Milano 1980, p. 17-31.
- C. Onion - G. Buzzi Diplomatic Code of the Monastery of St. Columbanus of Bobbio to the year MCCVIII (Bridges for the History of Italy 52,53,54), Rome 1918 (reprinted Turin 1966-70), I-III.
- M. Giuliani, "The Way of Borgalli, the" pagus Vignolensis "and the" castrum Grundulae "," Historical Archives of the Province of Parma s. IV, 6, 1954, p. 51-77
Bibliography
- C. Onion - G. Buzzi Diplomatic Code of the Monastery of St. Columbanus of Bobbio to the year MCCVIII (Bridges for the History of Italy 52,53,54), Rome 1918 (reprinted Turin 1966-70)
- S. Maggi - Carmen ArtocchiniI The castles of the Piacentino (Civitas 2), Piacenza 1967
- E. Falconi - R. Peveri (ed.): The Magnum Registrum the City of Piacenza, Milan 1984-1997
- Peter Chiappelloni a journey to Rome by Bobbio - The route of the Abbots "Archivum bobiense" - journal of the Historical Archives Bobiensi N.ro XXVI 2004
- Giovanni La Via Magistretti Abbots Parma, volume LVIII of & # 8217; Historical Archives of the Province of Parma - Deputation of National History of the Prov. Parm. 2007
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