Monza and Brianza - informations about city and surroundings

Historical town Lombard, jewlery of architecture and art, casket of the Iron Crown, is known not only for its story and treasuries, but also because accomodates the most ancient car circuit of the world, one of the most attractive of the world one of One Formula, destination of numerous tourists and fascinated of engines that at the end of summer run up to assist to the show of the Big Prize. The visit of Monza begins of the Cathedral and from the visit of the Corona Ferrea, masterpiece of jewelry that, according ti the tradition, preserve one of the nails of the Cross of Christ and that enclosed the head of numerous sovereigns and emperors, among whichi Carlo Magno, Federico Barbarossa and Napoleone. To little distance of the Cathedral we find the Argentario, raised in XIII century, while entering in the town raised in all its brightness the Villa Reale, operates eighteenth-century, real residence of Savoia and surrounded by the immense Park of Monza. Other important monuments are the Curch of Santa Maria in Strada, of San Pietro Martire, Santa Maria in Carrobiolo and the Mulino Colombo in the crowds of eighteenth-century the bridge of San Gerardino. Surely the best periods to visit the town are the spring and the summer for the show of the neighboring landscape but also winter during the Christmas period, when the town is enlivened of lights and colours and the stalls recall of the center the citizens in the roads of the center.