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A piazza (Italian pronunciation:) is a city square in Italy, Malta, along the Dalmatian coast and in surrounding regions. Possibly influenced by the centrality of the Forum (Roman) to ancient Mediterranean culture, the piazze of Italy are central to most towns and cities.
The Duomo of Padua and the Padua Bapistery sit next to each other at the west end of Piazza Duomo. It was built in the 12th century, and was reconstructed sometime in the 1310s and 1320s. It contains frescoes by Giusto de’ Menabuoi, which were painted in 1375 and 1376. Photography is forbidden inside.
Piazza Trilussa is an urban square in the neighbourhood Trastevere of Rome. Its name honours the Roman poet Carlo Alberto Salustri , better known by the anagram of his surname, Trilussa. The monumental fountain Fontanone dei Cento Preti dominates the centre of the square, facing the notable Ponte Sisto on the nearby Lungotevere .
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Piazza del Duomo: Piazza del Duomo is located in the heart of the historic centre of Florence.It is one of the most visited places in Europe and the world; here are the Florence Cathedral with the Cupola del Brunelleschi, the Giotto's Campanile, the Florence Baptistry, the Loggia del Bigallo, the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, and the Arcivescovile and Canonici's palace.
The facade stands out with its dramatic design and layered niches. In 1627, Richini designed the façade of the Collegio Elvetico (now the seat of Archivio di Stato), using a curved design to connect the interior and exterior. This innovative approach, possibly the first curved Baroque façade, anticipated themes later seen in Borromini's work ...
Piazza della Rotonda and the Pantheon (1769) by Bernardo Bellotto. Piazza della Rotonda and the Pantheon is an oil-on-canvas cityscape painting by the Italian painter Bernardo Bellotto and his son Lorenzo, from 1769, based on an engraving by Piranesi. It and its pair View of the Forum in Rome are both now in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow.
The Piazza Madonna (Italian - Madonna di Piazza) is a tempera on panel painting, dating to 1474-1486 and held in Pistoia Cathedral. [ 1 ] It was commissioned from Andrea del Verrocchio in 1474 as an altarpiece for the oratory of the Madonna di Piazza (the "Virgin of the Square").