Bobbio
School or library
Italian comune
Location: 44.7715, 9.3864 · Pleiades 383594
What this place is
- School or library — Columbanus founded the house in 614 and it became one of the great western libraries, copying and keeping books that survive nowhere else — several of its palimpsests carry the only text of what lies under them.
Who is recorded here
- Sylvester II ministry
In art
About the place
Bobbio is a small town and comune in the province of Piacenza in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. It is located in the Trebbia River valley southwest of the town Piacenza. There is also an abbey and a diocese of the same name.
From Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-08-14 · CC BY-SA 4.0