Monza - Italy

I'm on a quick trip to Monza, which is a little town just outside of Milan. I'm glad I'm going here, it;'s a good reche for the trip Mowgli and I will be making her in September to see Pearl Jam in Milan and Verona. I didn't see much, and I don't know that there's much to see. From Wikipedia:

Monza is famous for its Romanesque-Gothic Duomo of Saint John. 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.











It's nice just to walk round a quiet little Italian town with some nice weather.



After my meeting it's a quick rush back to the nether regions to see Alice in Chains and Guns N' Roses.