In the hamlet of San Giovanni, on the bank of the Po, lie the ruins of Industria-Bodincomacus, a Roman colony with its forum, a temple to Isis and its shops. Pliny the Elder names it first and calls it an important river port; a Hun invasion burned the settlement and ended its trade. Digging began in the mid-seventeenth century.
In 996 the emperor Otto III gave the fief of Industria to the bishop of Vercelli; in 1186 a bull of Urban III describes it split in two parishes, Plebem Monticali, probably today's centre, and Plebem Dustriam, that is San Giovanni. The origin of Monteu is unsettled: Latin Monticolus, or the later Monsacutus.
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