Eremo di San Michele

Quite impressive. Too bad that some parts are demolished by some 'visitors'...

History, spirituality, nature in this magical place.

In the Lent of 615 Colombanus retired to the hermitage of San Michele at Coli, leaving Bobbio as his deputy Attala and returning to the monastery only on Sundays. Here came the visit of Eustasius, his successor to Luxeuil, sent by King Clotarius II, who in the meantime had gathered the three existing Merovingian kingdoms under his rule and wished his return to France. Colombano died in Bobbio, in the abbey he had founded, at the age of 75, on Sunday 23 November 615. As the second abbot of the monastery he was succeeded by Attala (615-627). His tomb is still found in the crypt of the abbey together with those of his successor abbots (Attala, Bertulfo, Bobuleno and Cumiano), and of other eighteen monks and three nuns. Jonah, a monk in the abbey of San Colombano in Bobbio, was commissioned by Abbot Attala to write a biography in Latin of the saint who is the main source for the events of his life.

Path very beautiful and little beaten. Difficult the final stretch if you suffer from vertigo

Impervious and isolated place, with great peace and tranquility