Editing Monza (section)

=== Prehistory and ancient era ===
[[File:Duomo di monza, retro, scavi 0.JPG|thumb|right|Late Roman [[nymphaeum]] at the House of Decumani]]
[[File:Monza Park 8964.jpg|thumb|right|[[Monza Park]]]]
[[File:Iron Crown.JPG|thumb|right|The [[Iron Crown]]]]
[[File:Santa Maria Strada Monza.jpg|thumb|right|The Church of Santa Maria in Strada]]
[[File:Agricoltura Monzese.JPG|thumb|right|Museum of Rural Civilisation]]

Funerary [[urn]]s found in the late 19th century show that humans were in the area dating at the least to the [[Bronze Age]], when people would have lived in [[pile dwellings|pile dwelling]] settlements raised above the rivers and marshes.

During the [[Roman Empire]], Monza was known as '''''Modicia'''''. During the 3rd century [[Common Era|BCE]], the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] subdued the [[Insubria|Insubres]], a [[Gauls|Gaul]] tribe that had crossed the [[Alps]] and settled around [[Mediolanum]] (now Milan). A Gallo-Celtic tribe, perhaps the Insubres themselves, founded a village on the Lambro. The ruins of a Roman bridge named ''Ponte d'Arena'' can be seen near today's ''Ponte dei Leoni'' (Lions Bridge).