The name comes from the Piedmontese roba somé, "steal the donkey". The town sits on a terrace looking over the Stura di Lanzo and the mouth of the valleys, at the gates of Turin, beside the Mandria nature park.
On 17 December 1981 the council passed a resolution declaring Robassomero a "denuclearised zone": no atomic weapons and no nuclear plants to be installed here. It was a symbolic act, but it made this the first denuclearised comune in Italy.
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Outside Robassomero, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo 📍 Luni · 400 m Rothari levelled the Byzantine chapel; in the eleventh century Nicola rebuilt on its highest point. santuario di Nostra Signora del Mirteto 📍 Luni · 1.1 km In 1537 a painting wept tears of blood: from that grew the sanctuary above Ortonovo. chiesa di San Lorenzo 📍 Luni · 1.3 km Built between 1621 and 1645 on the ruins of a castle, a perpetual abbey since 1714. chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km Three naves on eight columns of Carrara marble, under a portal carved in 1671. Palazzo Amati Ingolotti Cornelio 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km A marchese rebuilt it for his duchess wife; its sixteenth-century cellars now pour the local wine. Luna 📍 Luni · 2.9 km Rome's marble port: forum, theatre and an amphitheatre for 7,000, at the mouth of the Magra.