Abbadia Alpina

Abbadia Alpina (formerly Abadia); Piedmontese: La Badia Occitan: L'Abaia) is a former commune of the Province of Turin in north-west Italy's Piedmont region, located between the torrents (intermittent streams) Lemina and Cusone.

In 1078, the Territorial Abbacy nullius of Santa Maria ad Abbadia Alpina was established.

It vested in its abbot the privileges of a diocesan prelate: that is, territoriality was not assigned to a bishopric.

On December 23, 1748, it lost territory in order to establish the Diocese of Pinerolo (alongside part of its metropolitan area, the Archbishopric of Turin).

Its remaining territory was merged (as was the former bishopric of Pinerolo) into the Diocese of Saluzzo, according to the wishes of the French emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte.