Running along the #columbanway , #sundown Bobbio Abbey Via San Colombano, which is part of the Apennine variant of the Via Francigena, is the historic route, passing through the eastern Oltrepò Pavese, he led most directly from Pavia in Bobbio, home of the famous abbey founded in the heart of the Apennines at the beginning of the seventh century, Irish abbot St. Columban. Built in the Lombard period, the route was largely followed by monks, dignitaries and pilgrims in the frequent communications between the capital of the kingdom, Pavia, and the important cultural and monastic center Bobbio, also known as the Northern Montecassino. At the same time the way also represented the first medieval part of the itinerary that from Pavia, Bobbio and through the Apennines, reached Pontremoli ensuring the connection between the Langobardia domains and the Lombards of Tuscia and anticipating the advent of the Via Francigena. The route was recently re-affirmed by John Magistretti with the support of various associations of pilgrims, who consider it a natural integration of the Way of the Abbots (from Bobbio in Pontremoli). This completes the so-called mountain Francigena, which allows the pilgrim, once arrived in Pavia, leaving the plain and continue through the beautiful streets of the mountains, and then resumes Pontremoli the traditional route to Rome. This itinerary follows only partly what followed in the distant 929 for the temporary transfer of the remains of St. Columbanus of Bobbio to Pavia, according to the decision to focus today's security needs, brevity and amenities of the way. Its length is about 70 km, easily passable in three stages.