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Bobbio is located at the foot of Ligurian Apennines, in the territory known as Colli Piacentini, near DOC for the production of typical wines such as Gutturnio, Trebbianino Trebbia Val, Barbera, Bonarda, Ortrugo, Malvasia, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot ( other: Riesling, Dolcetto, Muscat and Merlot ).
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* The main source for Columbanus's life is recorded by Jonas of Bobbio, an Italian monk who entered the monastery in Bobbio in 618, three years after the saint's death ; Jonas wrote the life c. 643.
Bobbio is a small town and commune in the province of Piacenza in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy.
Bobbio is the administrative center of the Comunità Montana Appennino Piacentino.
Bobbio is located in the heart of Val Trebbia, a valley described by Ernest Hemingway as " the most beautiful in the world ".
Bobbio is a coveted tourist destination known for its history of art and culture, for nature lovers, and for its ancient monuments.
Bobbio is 45 km away from Piacenza and from there you can reach it by taking the state road n. 45 road which connects Piacenza to Genova.
From Bobbio, the road to Piacenza is only a few minutes from Barberino Orrido, a wonderful overlook of the river Trebbia.
On the same road but in the direction of Genova and 4 km from Bobbio is San Salvatore, a little village with a wonderful view of the rivers meanderings.
From Bobbio, taking the state road n. 461 for Pavia after 12 km you reach Passo Penice ( 1145 m ) where there is a ski resort on the top of the Monte Penice ( 1460 m ).
On the other side of the river just 10 km from Bobbio is the village of Coli, situated between beautiful pine woods and pasture fields.
The river Trebbia is the backbone of Bobbio and its surrounding territory.
The territory around Bobbio is characterized by the Apennines, which, apart from outlining a splendid landscape, influence the climate ; contributing cool air in summer and protecting the town from cold winds and fog in winter.
But the history of Bobbio is tied to the existence of the Abbey founded in 614 by the Irish monk Saint Columbanus ( It.
On the left side is the Bobbio historical archives: sited into the premises of the Old Seminary, founded in the mid of the 12th century, they keep precious parchments and fragments of ancient codes dated from 9th century to 15th century.
* The Town Museum: sited in the ancient refectory and service room, is a didactic journey through the history of Bobbio and can be a sort of introduction to all the other historical places of the town.
The first section is dedicated to the life and works of the Irish Saint, while the second section looks at the monastic complex from an architectonic point of view, on a computer runs a program for a virtual visit of the building, but it is also about the famous Scriptorium that made Bobbio the greatest cultural centre of northern Italy.
from the centre of the town, the spa building Therm of Bobbio, first opened in July 1904, is being restored.
* The director Marco Bellocchio, whose family is originally from Bobbio, shot in the city and close to his first film of success, Fists in the Pocket.
The town of Bobbio has its own film festival director Marco Bellocchio is born from the Laboratory Farecinema, and would eventually become the film competition Bobbio Film Festival.
" Farecinema – meet the authors " is the brainchild of Maestro Marco Bellocchio who wanted to create in his hometown, Bobbio, a laboratory for teaching the art of film direction.
Bobbio is also famous for the sausage: salami, Cups, bacon, Piacenza PDO, sausages of various kinds, and cotechini and zampone.
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He died at Bobbio ( in part the model for the great monastery in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose ) in 615.
If Columbanus's abbey at Bobbio in Italy became a citadel of faith and learning, Luxeuil in France became the nursery of saints and apostles.
His body has been preserved in the abbey church at Bobbio, and many miracles are said to have been wrought there through his intercession.
The sacristy at Bobbio possesses a portion of the skull of the saint, his knife, wooden cup, bell, and an ancient water vessel, formerly containing sacred relics and said to have been given to him by St. Gregory.
Category: Burials at Bobbio Abbey
Between 612 and 615, the Irish missionary Saint Columban, then living at Bobbio in Italy, was persuaded by Agilulf, King of the Lombards, to address a letter on the condemnation of the " Three Chapters " to Boniface IV.
These palimpsests had originally belonged to the famous convent of St Columbanus at Bobbio, and had been written over by the monks with the acts of the First Council of Chalcedon.
In northern Italy, the monastery at Bobbio used Carolingian minuscule beginning in the 9th century.
* 5 June Madonna aid ( party at Shrine of Our Lady of Aid Bobbio )
* 15 August Santa Maria Assunta ( feast of the patron Bobbio and Cathedral of Bobbio, fireworks at Ponte Gobbo )
There are some paleographic similarities with early manuscripts produced at the monastery at Bobbio, such as the Ambrosiana Jerome and the Ambrosiana Orosius.
The fragment, consisting of 85 lines, is a 7th-century Latin manuscript bound in an eighth or 7th century codex that came from the library of Columban's monastery at Bobbio ; it contains internal cues which suggest that it is a translation from a Greek original written about 170 or as late as the 4th century.
The majority of the existing manuscripts of Rutilius come from an ancient manuscript found at the monastery of Bobbio by Giorgio Galbiato in 1493, which has not been seen since a French general took the manuscript in 1706.
It is thought to have been produced at the scriptorium of Bobbio Abbey.
On page two there is an inscription connecting the manuscript to Atalanus, who was St. Columbanus's successor as abbot of the monastery at Bobbio.
Many of these psalms and hymns were later written down in the Antiphonary of Bangor which came to reside in Colombanus ’ monastery at Bobbio, Italy.
Luxeuil sent out monks to found houses at Bobbio, between Milan and Genoa, where Columbanus himself became abbot, and monasteries at Saint-Valéry and Remiremont.
In 1944, he was interned by the Germans in the monastery at Bobbio, Genoa and had to walk back home across the mountains.
This is consistent with the discovery at Bobbio of a 15th-century MS., now in the Bilioteca Nazionale at Naples, containing a number of poems by Dracontius ( the Carmina minora ).
Bobbio and Ligurian
Following the annexation of the Ligurian Republic to France in 1805, Voghera, Bobbio and Tortona passed to the newly created Department of Genoa, while the Department of Marengo acquired Asti, previously in the Department of Tanaro.
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