Cantu

Cantu is an Italian metropolis of 40,016 inhabitants within the province of Como in Lombardy. It is the 25 most populous municipalities in Lombardy. The foundation of the call of Cantu dates again to Canturium which can derive from the Canturigi, a populace that lived in the Insubria vicinity in the 6th century BC or from Cantores, indicating a Cantoria in some religious constructing. Its history started out inside the 5th century BC with the muse of Galliano, the first inhabited nucleus, by the Insubri Galli. In 196 BC the village became conquered via the Roman legions that integrated it into the municipality of Novum Comum. Cantu become a village of strategic industrial significance due to the fact the ancient Milan Como road exceeded via it.

In the 5th century AD the metropolis, thanks to a discreet cultural and non secular development, became a pieve and detached itself from Como with the call of Canturio. In 483 AD, with a decree of Pope Gelasius I to the Archbishop of Milan Teodoro dei Medici, it become a Royal Court with different lands. In 605 AD about, the Cantu place separated from the Como place, for the reason that latter has become a suffragan diocese of the Patriarchate of Aquileia.