Susa - Cattedrale di San Giusto

Olderico Manfredi (= Ulric Manfred II of Turin), Adelaide´s father (see previous uploads) founded a Benedician abbey here in 1029 to house the relics of San Giusto di Novalesa. The abbey church was built around 1100 and has since been refurbished and restored several times. The campanile is 51 metres high, the spire was added in the 15th century.

When in 1772 the bishopric of Susa was created the abbey church was made the cathedral of the new diocese.