Monza

Nation	Italy
Region	Lombardy
Area	33,03 km²
Population 31-12-04	122,263
Density	3,704 / km²
Time Zone	CET: UTC+1
Location	45°35′N 9°16′E
Altitude	162 m
Mayor	Michele Faglia
Map showing the location of Monza in Italy
Official Site

The Lambro River runs through Monza.

Monza is a city on the River River Lambro, a tributary of the Po, in the Lombardy region of Italy some 15km north-northeast of Milan. Since June 11, 2004 Monza has been officially the capital of the new province of Monza and Brianza. However this new administrative arrangement will only come fully into effect in 2009, and until then it will continue to be treated for many purposes as a commune within the province of Milan. Image File history File links Monza-Stemma. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... The Regions of Italy were granted a degree of regional autonomy in the 1948 constitution, which states that the constitutions role is: to recognize, protect and promote local autonomy, to ensure that services at the State level are as decentralized as possible, and to adapt the principles and laws... Lombardy (Italian: Lombardia) is a region in northern Italy between the Alps and the Po Valley. ... -1... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... This abbreviation has four meanings: Central European Time (see time zones) College English Test: a national English examination in Peoples Republic of China. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... hi mom ... Image File history File links PosizioneComune. ... Image File history File links Italy_Regions_220px. ... Generated by me and released under the GFDL. My photo of the Lambro River in Monza (August 2003)released on Wikipedia under the GFDL. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Generated by me and released under the GFDL. My photo of the Lambro River in Monza (August 2003)released on Wikipedia under the GFDL. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... PO may stand for: Pareto optimality Parole Officer Per os, Latin for by mouth or orally Perfect Orange a third wave ska based in Knoxville, TN from 2002-2005 Pilkington Optronics, now Thales Optronics Pissed off (often used as a verb or adjective, as in POed or POed) Platforma... Lombardy (Italian: Lombardia) is a region in northern Italy between the Alps and the Po Valley. ... MILAN Type anti-tank Nationality joint France/German Era Cold War, modern Launch platform Individual, Vehicle Target Vehicle, Fortification History Builder MBDA, Bharat Dynamics (under license) Date of design 70s Production period since 1972 Service duration since 1972 Operators 41 countries Variants MILAN 1, MILAN 2, MILAN 2T, MILAN 3... June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Province of Monza e Brianza has been officially created (with part of the province of Milan) on May 12th, 2004, but will be effective in 2009. ... A commune or comune is a system of social and economic organization which involves the common ownership of resources and/or shared obligations. ... Milan (It. ...

This is the third-largest city of Lombardy and the most important economic, industrial and administrative centre of the Brianza area, supporting a textile industry and a publishing trade. Internationally it is best known for the Autodromo Nazionale Monza motor racing circuit, home to the Italian Grand Prix, the Scuderia Ferrari, and previously to the Alfa Romeo team. Province of Monza e Brianza has been officially created (with part of the province of Milan) on May 12th, 2004, but will be effective in 2009. ... It has been suggested that Textile manufacturing be merged into this article or section. ... Publishing is the industry of the production of literature or information - the activity of putting information for public view. ... Autodromo Nazionale di Monza is a motor racing circuit near the town of Monza in Italy, north of Milan. ... Auto racing (also known as automobile racing or autosport) is a sport involving racing automobiles. ... The Italian Grand Prix is one of the longest running events on the motor racing calendar. ... Scuderia Ferrari is the common name for the Gestione Sportiva, the division of the Ferrari automobile company concerned with racing. ... Alfa Romeo is an Italian automobile manufacturing company, founded as Darracq Italiana by Cavaliere Ugo Stella, an aristocrat from Milan in partnership with the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq. ...

Monza also hosts a University, a Department of the University of Milan, a Court of Justice and several offices of regional administration. A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees at all levels (bachelor, master, and doctor) in a variety of subjects. ...

History of the town

Origins in the Bronze Age

Late nineteenth-century finds of funerary urns show that the human presence in the area dates back at least to the Bronze Age, when people would have lived in settlements of pile dwellings raised above the rivers and marshes. Categories: Stub ... The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ... Pile dwelling on Sumatra, Indonesia Pile dwellings are houses raised over the surface of the soil or a body of water. ...

The Roman Period

During the third century BCE the Romans subdued the Insubres, Gauls who had crossed the Alps and settled around Mediolanum (now Milan). A gallo-celtic tribe, who also seem to have been Insubres, then founded a village on the Lambro, of which the ruins of a bridge remain. Standing in a place where young people practised sports, the bridge was named ‘Arena’ and its remains can be seen near today’s Ponte dei Leoni ( Lion Bridge). Roman or Romans has several meanings, primarily related to the Roman citizens, but also applicable to typography, math, and a commune. ... Hystorical area in Italian Republic, in the past inhabited by Insubrian, a celtic people who lived north of Po river, in an area between Adda river and Sesia river. ... Gallia (in English Gaul) is the Latin name for the region of western Europe occupied by present-day France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river. ... The West face of the Petit Dru above the Chamonix valley near the Mer de Glace. ... Arcadius solidus, from Mediolanum mint, 400s. ...

During the Roman Empire the town was known as Modicia For other uses, see Roman Empire (disambiguation). ...

The Lombards

The Lombard invasion of Italy was an important event in Monza's history and the Lombard King Autari married Theodolinda, daughter of the Bavarian King Garibaldo. The Lombards (Latin Langobardi, from which the alternative name Longobards found in older English texts), were a Germanic people originally from Scandinavia that entered the late Roman Empire. ...

The new queen ordered the constuction near the River Lambro of an oraculum, that is a sort of little church, that today is part of the basilica of Saint John. Also Paulus Diaconus, a reknowned Lombard historian, tells us about this, writing: "[...] Theudelinda regina basilicam costruxerat, qui locus supra Mediolanum duodecim milibus abest, [...]" About this fact there is also an important legend that tells that theodolinda, who was sleeping while his husband was hunting, saw in a dream a columb who told her : "Modo", that in latin stands for "here", in order to say that she should bild in that place the oraculum, and the queen answered "etiam", that stands for "yes". So from the two words "modo" and "etiam", following the legend, would have derived "Modoetia", that was the medieval name of Monza.

Subsequent Events

In the Middle Ages, the commune of Monza was sometimes independent, sometimes subject to Milan and the Visconti.

On the evening of 29 July 1900 King Umberto I of Italy was assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci. July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... 1900 (MCM) is a common year starting on Monday. ... Umberto I or Humbert I of Italy (Umberto Ranieri Carlo Emanuele Giovanni Maria Ferdinando Eugenio of Savoy), (14 March 1844 – 29 July 1900) was the King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his death. ... Gaetano Bresci (1869 - May 22, 1901), was an Italian-American anarchist who assassinated Italian king Humbert I. He is still considered a hero by many anarchists and republicans. ...

The Built Environment

In the course of its history Monza stood thirty-two sieges, but the Porta d'Agrate is the only vestige of its walls and fortifications. Nearby is the nunnery in which the nun of Monza was enclosed in Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi. Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (March 7, 1785–May 22, 1873) was an Italian poet and novelist. ... I Promessi Sposi (English The Betrothed) is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni. ...

Cathedral of Monza

Monza is famous for its Romanesque-Gothic Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista. There Theodelinda's centrally-planned Greek-cross oraculum ("chapel of prayer") of ca 595 (its foundations remaining under the crossing of nave and transept) was enlarged at the close of the 13th century by enclosing the former atrium within the building. The fine black and-white marble arcaded facade was erected in the mid-14th century by Matteo da Campione. The campanile was erected in 1606 to designs by Pellegrino Tibaldi. In the frescoed Chapel of Theodelinda is the Iron Crown of Lombardy, supposed to contain one of the nails used at the Crucifixion. The treasury also contains the crown, fan and gold comb of Theodelinda, and, as well as Gothic crosses and reliquaries, a golden hen and seven chickens, representing Lombardy and her seven provinces. Though the interior has suffered changes, there is a fine relief by Matteo da Campione representing a royal Lombard coronation, and some 15th-century frescoes with scenes from the life of Theodelinda. Cathedral of Monza, Italy. ... Cathedral of Monza, Italy. ... Romanesque St. ... See also Gothic art. ... Full descriptions of the elements of a Gothic floorplan are found at the entry Cathedral diagram. ... Full descriptions of the elements of a Gothic floorplan are found at the entry Cathedral diagram. ... Pellegrino Tibaldi (1527—1596) was an Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter. ... The Iron Crown of Lombardy is both a reliquary and one of the most ancient royal insignia of Europe. ...

The historical centre also contains the church of Santa Maria in Istrada, with a rich terra-cotta facade of 1393, and the Broletto or Arengario, the 14th-century palace of the civic commune, raised on an arcade of pointed arches, with a tall square machiolated tower terminating in a sharp central cone.

Nearby, the royal villa (Villa Reale) originally built by Piermarini in 1777 for the archduke Ferdinand of Austria, lies on the banks of the Lambro, surrounded by its park.

The Torri Bianche skyskrapers, on the outskirts of Vimercate, are a newly created office block. Vimercate is a city in the Lombardy region of Italy. ...

Sport

The professional football club A.C. Monza Brianza 1912 play, currently in Serie C2, at the Stadio Brianteo. Football is the name given to a number of different, but related, team sports. ... A.C. Monza Brianza 1912 is an Italian football club, based in Monza, Lombardy. ... Serie C is the name of the third and fourth highest football leagues in Italy. ...

Transport Links

Highways: A4-E64 (Turin-Milan-Venice), A52 (North Ring of Milan), A51 (East Ring of Milan). Expressway to Lecco and Sondrio (SS36). Lecco is an Italian city set in Lombardy 50 kilometres north of Milan; it borders a branch of the Lake of Como (named Lake of Lecco) on the west and the Lombard Alps on the east. ... Sondrio (Latin Sundrium) is a town in the Province of Sondrio, in the region Lombardy in Italy. ...

Every few minutes, trains travel between Monza and Milano via the Suburban Railway, Line S9. In the beginning of 2006 work will be started for the expansion of Subway Line MM1 from Milano/Sesto San Giovanni to Monza. 2006 (MMVI in Roman) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Line 1 (Ita: Linea Uno) was the first subway built in Milano. ...