Novalesa

Novalesa ( Occitan Nonalésa, Piedmontese Novalèisa, French Novalaise ) is a municipality with 544 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2012) in the Italian province of Turin (TO ), Region Piedmont. The place was originally developed from the same monastery.

Geography

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

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

History

The monastery was Novalesa 726 of a certain Abbo († 739 or shortly thereafter) donated, who came from a Gallo-Roman, the former Frankish house Meier Charles Martel ( 689-741 ) very close family. After his death, Abbo bequeathed to the monastery his large landholdings. On his crossing of the Alps 773 Charlemagne stayed briefly in the monastery Novalesa, and after the successful campaign against the Lombards, the abbey was under his protection, and later also that of his grandson Lothar.

In the 9th century, the abbey suffered large land cessions establishing a hospice on Mont Cenis, but was compensated for by Louis the Pious. Hardly a century later the monks fled from the Saracens to Turin. The Priory Novalesa was in constant conflict with the Margrave of Turin, where it came to the possession of territories in the Arc (Maurienne ) and Isèretal ( Tarentaise). Beginning of the 13th century finally imputed Count Thomas I of Savoy to the monastery, the Hospice of Mont Cenis.

Abdij Novalesa

Lombard reliquary of the Holy Eldrade of Novalesa, Italy

Waterfalls

Waterfall Coda di Cavallo