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The Torba complex is a very ancient story that originates in the  5th century AD , when the Romans built the walls of a military outpost against the threat of the barbarians, near the village of Castelseprio. Even today the guard tower remains as a testimony to the original function of the castrum, also carried on by the Goths, Byzantines and Lombards and then changed over time.

From  a defensive stronghold , Torba became  a religious centre  with the settlement of a group of  Benedictine nuns  who in the 8th century built the monastery and, later, the small church. For about seven centuries the secluded female community inhabited this place, leaving us as a legacy of its lasting passage the frescoes in the tower, hieratic, with an almost mysterious aura.

In the fifteenth century the Benedictine nuns moved and Torba began a slow decline that led the complex to transform into  a farm  and, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, to lose its religious function and gradually slide into a state of degradation that was only interrupted in 1976 thanks to the FAI. Today this thousand-year-old site with an important past (not by chance included in the  UNESCO World Heritage lists in 2011 ) lives again also in the light of the continuous findings from the Lombard era, which are just one of the surprises that the Monastery, and its territory rich in treasures of art and nature, offer to those who go in search of places off the beaten track.