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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.
Martyrs' Square (Italian: Piazza dei Martiri, also known as Campedel) in Belluno, is called the "living room" of the city. [5] The square is just outside the walls of the old city. Some historians claim that shape of the north side of the square was defined by the radius of guns defending the former walls of the city, to the south, which no ...
This was one of the most fruitful and creative periods in Italian architecture, when several masterpieces such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Piazza dei Miracoli and the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan were built. The style was called "Roman"-esque because of its usage of the Roman arches, stained glass windows, and also its curved columns ...
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The Italian architect Aldo Rossi has designed a number of Palazzo style buildings, including Hotel Il Palazzo in Fukuoka, Japan, (1989) which combines elements of a typical palazzo facade, including projecting cornice, with the intense red found in Japanese traditional architecture, and the green of patinated bronze. [9]
Émile Chanoux square (French pronunciation: [emil ʃanu], French: Place Émile Chanoux, Italian: Piazza Émile Chanoux) is a city square in Aosta, Italy. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Place Émile Chanoux .
On the piazza at the Southwest corner of the palace is the statue of Pasquino. The Neoclassical architect Giuseppe Valadier designed the chapel on the piano nobile or first floor. He also designed the white marble façade on the adjacent church of San Pantaleo for which is named the piazza in front of the Palazzo Braschi.
The square in front of the church is called St. Peter and Paul Square (in Italian, Piazza Ss. Pietro e Paolo ). It includes buildings from the 8th century, including the reconstructed town castle (now used as council offices), and the old aristocratic “ Villa Borghi ”, which has become a cloister that houses the town's Salesian nuns order.