Sacra di San Michele

This is my entry for #monomad challenge by @monochromes

"Like Ganden pilgrims, with bodies made of light, on invisible planets" (F. Battiato).

I felt like a pilgrims towards an invisible place.
Our fragility disappeared in front of this overflowing lights and landscape, and I thought 'I want to live here'.
There are places that are a 'no place', a nowhere, because of they are universal, and they speak directly to the soul.

In foreground, 'Sacra di San Michele', a very famous place of Piedmont and an heritage of all the world. In the background, Alps, dominated by Mount Monviso (upper right in the pic).

This abbey has inspired Umberto Eco to write 'Il Nome della Rosa' ('The Name of the Rose').

Here Susa valley (Piedmont) from Rocca Stella.

There is small chapel on the summit of Rocca Stella, dedicated to Holy Mary:

Here last steps before the summit. It is an easy trek above the noise and the pollution of the plains, a place where soul can rest, for some hours, and also body can breathe fresh and clean air.

On the way back, I felt the memories of viewed placed still active in my soul, like the roots of these ancient trees.... Invisible, but vital.

Sacra di San Michele is a spiritual place, located along the Ley lines, a row who links many sanctuary dedicated to St. Michael Archangel. Every monastery or abbey on this line is a special energetic place, and the line is two thousands kilometers long, from Jerusalem to England through Mont Saint-Michel in France.

(image from The mysterious ley lines of St. Michael Archangel)

Follow the line, follow the spirit.

Pictures taken with Nikon D800 and Sony Alpha 7iii.
19.02.2023