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monza city italy visitUrns and funerary objects, weapons, lamps, pins, various pottery: these findings dating back to the Bronze Age (around the 2nd millennium BC ) were discovered both in the province of Monza and in the current city at the end of the 20th century: today these findings are preserved in the deposits of the Civic Museums.
The certain presence in the region of socially organized communities of Celtic origin is also documented . In fact, the Celtic tribe of the Insubres , having crossed the Alps , had established itself around Mediolanum ( Milan ), dividing itself into numerous villages, including what would become today's Monza.
Pliny the Elder describes the inhabitants of the area as dedicated to sheep farming and the agriculture of turnips, wheat and vines. Pig breeding was flourishing thanks to the abundance of oak forests.
Roman era
In the year 222 BC the Roman consuls Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus and Marcus Claudius Marcellus subdued the Insubrian Celts who, however, a few years later, rose up upon the arrival of Hannibal ( 218 BC ). Having returned to the orbit of Rome in the first decades of the 2nd century BC , Cisalpine Gaul was integrated with a widespread settlement of colonists and obtained Roman citizenship from Julius Caesar in 49 BC ( Lex Roscia ).
Royal XI Augustea
Transpadane Gaul
In Augustus ' division Modicia was included in Regio XI , whose territory corresponded to ancient Transpadane Gaul .
The city was not an autonomous municipality as it depended on the municipality of Mediolanum due to its relative proximity ; an important road junction for the roads that connected Milan to Como and Bergamo, its importance began to manifest itself from the end of the 3rd century even if the place continued to maintain an essentially agricultural character.
The Latin name of the city was probably Mòdicia (as evidenced by the dedication engraved on a 2nd century altar dedicated to Hercules by the Juvenes Modiciates ) even if it is not found mentioned in documents of either the Republican or Imperial age.
From archaeological findings it was found that the main nucleus of the city was on the right bank of the Lambro river towards the Duomo, and a second nucleus, perhaps later, was on the left bank towards today's church of San Maurizio .
The two areas were connected by the only remaining monument of Roman Monza: the bridge over the Lambro river known as "di Arena".
The bridge would be so called because it was located near a place where young people practiced gymnastic and sporting activities; another hypothesis refers instead to the possible existence of a small amphitheater on the left bank of the river, as suggested by the elliptical curve described by the current via Vittorio Emanuele II [17] .
The bridge (which was demolished in the 19th century to make way for today's Ponte dei Leoni) was 70 m long and 4 m wide, and was made up of seven segmental arches in terracotta and serizzo, one of which is still visible today. The road that led from Milan to Lecco and Bergamo passed through here.
Late Roman nymphaeum
at the House of the Decumani .
Various testimonies remain of Roman Monza such as ceramics, rough or painted, of daily use, altars dedicated to Jupiter , Hercules and Mercury , inscriptions, sarcophagi , tombstones and epigraphs of soldiers, traders and small landowners, often with Romanised Celtic names.
The foundations of a late Roman nymphaeum have been rearranged in the garden of the so-called Casa dei Decumani , not far from the site of the discovery which occurred to the east of the Rosary chapel of the Cathedral. In an area not far away there could also have been a burial area, since the related stone fencing materials were reused as pillars of the Decumani house itself.
In the last period of the empire's decline, in 402 , Alaric 's Goths plundered the Transpadana region.
Medieval era
With the disintegration of the Roman Empire, Monza shared the events of the whole of Italy which underwent the settlement of new peoples.
First the Heruli of Odoacer , who deposed the last Roman emperor ( 476 ).
Then the Ostrogoths of Theodoric ( 493 ), who chose Monza as one of his residences and had his own Palatium magnum built there . Unfortunately, there is no apparent trace left of Theodoric's palace, which was also mentioned by Paolo Diacono [18] in his Historia Langobardorum .
Then the war waged by Justinian against the Goths which led to the Byzantine reconquest of Italy ( 553 ).
Finally, the arrival in Italy of the Lombards ( 568 ), led by their king Alboin : the Lombard conquest will extend to a large part of the Italian territory ( Langobardia Maior and Langobardia Minor ) and will entail a historically important role for the city of Monza ( Modoetia ) .
The Iron Crown
The Lombard dominions at the death of Agilulf ( 616 ).
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