Monza

Monza ( German outdated: Montsch, Lombard: Mùnscia ) is an Italian town with 120 440 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) north of Milan in the Lombardy region and capital of the Province of Monza and Brianza.

Geography

Location

The city is crossed from north to south from the river Lambro. Milan is only about 25 km ( driving distance ) away to the south.

Climate

In 2000, the average annual temperature was 11.6 ° C. ( In spring: 14 ° C - in summer: 18.9 ° C - in the fall: 9.7 ° C - in winter: 4 ° C)

History

First mentioned in the 6th century AD, Monza received city rights in the year 700. During the Middle Ages Monza was sometimes independent, repeated depends also on Milan and the Visconti.

The first built in Northern Italy railway line ran from Milan to Monza. It was opened on August 17, 1840.

On the evening of July 29th, 1900 King Umberto of Italy was assassinated in Monza by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

Since June 11, 2004 Monza is the capital of the new province of Monza and Brianza. Until this decision, however, in 2009 fully came into force, Monza was mostly still treated as part of the province of Milan.

Attractions

• The oldest preserved building in the town is the so-called Arengario, one on public occasions ( court hearings, council meetings, markets, proclamations urban decrees etc. ) unused and quite representative building from the 13th century.
• The Duomo of Monza dates from the 13th/14th. Century. The Cathedral Museum of the Cathedral should be retained with the Iron Crown. With the crown, which can also be seen in the arms of the city, the Lombard kings were crowned earlier in Monza. With her ​​adorned herself in 1805 Napoleon I., as he had already done a year earlier in Notre Dame de Paris. The Gospel Book of Queen Theodelinda of 603 AD is another masterpiece of Lombard art crafts in the Cathedral.
• The Royal Villa of Monza (Villa Reale) was build in the years 1777-1780 nor on behalf of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa of the imperial architect Giuseppe Piermarini in the classical style castle. It initially served her son, the Governor-General of Lombardy, Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria -Este next to the residence in Milan as a country residence ( 1780-1796 ). Later, it was, inter alia, the main residence of the Napoleonic viceroy of Italy, and together with the park is a favored retreat of the Italian kings from 1861.
• The park of Monza has a size of 688 hectares and is located near the castle in the north of the city. Thus, it is not itself the famous Central Park in New York in the shadows, the Parco di Monza is more than two and a half times as large.

Sports

In the Park of Monza Autodromo Nazionale Monza is the that is since the 1920s, venue of the Grand Prix of Italy, which is one of the Formula 1 World Championship since 1950. The Opel Monza was named after this race track.

The largest football club in the city, the AC Monza Brianza, currently plays in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione the.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Ernesto Ambrosini (1894-1951), Athlete
• Vincenzo APPIANI (1850-1932), composer, pianist and music teacher
• Fabrizio Barbazza (* 1963), race car driver
• Ernesto Brambilla ( born 1934 ), automobile and motorcycle racer
• Vittorio Brambilla (1937-2001), racing driver
• Pierluigi Casiraghi (born 1969 ), football player
• Roberto Crippa (1921-1972), painter
• Franco Faccio (1840-1891 Monza ), composer and conductor
• Filippo Galli ( born 1963 ), football player
• Giuseppe Longhi (1766-1831), engraver
• Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910 in San Terenzo ), neurologist, physiologist and anthropologist
• Daniele Massaro ( born 1961 ), football player
• Stefano Mauri ( born 1980 ), football player
• Maria Ludovica of Modena (1787-1816), Empress of Austria 1808-1816