Sezzadio is a ''
comune
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'' (municipality) in the
Province of Alessandria in the
Italian region
Piedmont
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, located about southeast of
Turin
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and about south of
Alessandria.
Sezzadio borders the following municipalities:
Carpeneto,
Cassine,
Castelnuovo Bormida,
Castelspina,
Gamalero,
Montaldo Bormida,
Predosa, and
Rivalta Bormida.
It is the location of the
Abbey of Santa Giustina, founded in 722 by the
Lombard king Liutprand. In 1033 the abbey was enlarged by the marquis of Sezzadio, Oberto, remaining under the
Benedictine
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s until 1474. The church has a large
cotto façade divided by pilasters and crowned by
Lombard bands. The interior has a nave and two aisles ending with apses. In the apses are frescoes from the 14th and 15th centuries, while the crypt has an 11th-century mosaic pavement.
Antonio Barbavara was briefly the Abbot in 1428. Mark Knowles argues that Antonio was the author of the
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cipher manuscript.
The large parish church was built from 1900 in neo-Gothic style.
References
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