The Sacra di San Michele is an architectural complex located on Mount Pirchiriano, at the entrance to the Val di Susa; it is located in the territory of the municipality of Sant'Ambrogio di Torino and belongs to the diocese of Susa. It is the symbolic monument of the Piedmont region. Renovated, it was entrusted to the care of the Rosminian fathers. The Sacra belongs to San Michele because it was born and grew with its history and its structures around the cult of San Michele who landed in Val di Susa in the fifth or sixth centuries. Its location on high ground and in a highly evocative setting immediately recalls the two Michaelic settlements of Gargano and Normandy. Founded between 983 and 987 on the rocky spur of Mount Pirchiriano, it is located at the center of a pilgrimage route of over two thousand kilometers that connects almost all of Western Europe from Mont-Saint-Michel to Monte Sant'Angelo. In recent years, the Sacra has received special, generous and encouraging attention from public and private bodies. The Superintendencies have always carried out an action aimed at the protection and enhancement of the monument: they do so with targeted studies, soliciting and guaranteeing the indispensable restoration interventions by the competent state bodies. Among the most important interventions we mention: the complete renovation of the roof of the church and the old monastery; the restoration of the Portal of the Zodiac, the panels and the canvases; the conservative recovery of the Sepulchre of the Monks, the ancient guesthouses and the flying buttresses. Alongside these interventions, the Sacra has resumed intense moments of religious and cultural initiatives: the liturgical-religious care of the ancient Michaelic sanctuary; an annual conference, since 1992, with publication of the proceedings; numerous concerts in the sanctuary, in the months of May, June and September, with special guided tours of the old monastery; an increasingly qualified service of accompaniment-guide and reception, with training courses managed by the Association of Volunteers of the Sacra; the reorganization and strengthening of the library, with the relative cataloguing of all books. Article 1 of Regional Law 68 of 21 December 1994 states: the Region recognizes the Sacra di San Michele as a symbolic monument of Piedmont, for its centuries-old history, for the testimonies of spirituality, daring, art, culture and the admirable synthesis of the most peculiar characteristics that it can offer of Piedmont, as well as for its exceptional location and visibility.