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4 unusual facts about Piazza


Piazza

There is a good example of a piazza in Scotswood at Newcastle College.

When the Earl of Bedford developed Covent Garden - the first private-venture public square built in London - his architect Inigo Jones surrounded it with arcades, in the Italian fashion.

Seyoum Mesfin

According to Aregawi Berhe, he was one of seven students who met on 14 September 1974 at an inconspicuous cafe in the Piazza district to create the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front.

South Charleston High School

A commons area referred to by the students and staff as the "Piazza" was added to the front of the school and became the current entrance to the building.


Alberto Piazza

In 2007 Piazza and colleagues studied the Y chromosome of men in areas of Tuscany where Etruscans had concentrated: his team found they were more closely genetically related to men from Turkey than to other regions of Italy, suggesting that the ancient Greek historian Herotodus may have been correct to claim that Etruscans came from Lydia.

Alfonso Rivarola

In 1638, he helped with the creation of a theatrical tableu, a mixed metaphor of pagan and Catholic themes, set up in a piazza near the Palazzo de' Marchesi Bevilaqua in Ferrara; the occasion was the celebration Coronation of Mary, as the Virgin of the Rosary and the arrival of the new cardinal Ciriaco Rocci.

Banda della Comasina

Along with Vallanzasca, the most famous members of the band were: Antonio Colia, Rossano Cochis, Vito Pesce, Claudio Gatti, Carlo Carluccio and Antonio Furiato, the latter two died in gun battles with policemen, respectively, in Piazza Vetra in Milan, during a visit to a robbery and the motorway A4 exit Dalmine, while the banda, to complete, was organizing the kidnapping of a businessman from Bergamo.

Billingsgate Fish Market

In 1850, the market according to Horace Jones, "consisted only of shed buildings ... The open space on the north of the well-remembered Billingsgate Dock was dotted with low booths and sheds, with a range of wooden houses with a piazza in front on the west, which served the salesmen and fishmongers as shelter, and for the purposes of carrying on their trade." In that year the market was rebuilt to a design by J.B. Bunning, the City architect.

Capitoline Hill

The bird's-eye view of the engraving by Étienne Dupérac shows Michelangelo's solution to the problems of the space in the Piazza del Campidoglio.

Carpi, Emilia-Romagna

Carpi is distinguished by its great Renaissance square (piazza), the largest in the region.

Charlie Reliford

Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees fired the sawed-off piece of the bat toward Piazza, causing both benches to empty and reigniting the controversy that had begun the previous July when Clemens had hit Piazza in the head with a pitch during an interleague game at Yankee Stadium.

Chiavari railway station

Originally, there was a railway bridge linking Piazza Nostra dell'Orto (north of the station) and Piazza Vittorio Leonardi (to the south).

Cordonata

Famous Italian cordonate are in Rome, leading from Piazza d'Aracoeli to Piazza del Campidoglio (the "cordonata capitolina", work of Michelangelo) and, also in Rome, leading to the Piazza del Quirinale, and gives the name to a road (Via della Cordonata).

Counterfeit for Murder

Other members of the cast of La casa degli attori include Giusi Raspani Dandolo (Hattie Annis), Agla Marsili (Tammy Baxter), Ruggero De Daninos (Albert Leach), Giorgio Piazza (Raymond Dell), Daniela Surina (Martha Kirk), Paolo Graziosi (Noel Ferris), Giovanni Di Benedetto (Avvocato Parker) and Enrico D'Amato (Procuratore Skinner).

Doge of Venice

Francesco Sansovino described such a procession in minute detail in 1581, and his verbal description is confirmed and complemented by Cesare Vecellio's 1586 painting of a ducal procession in the Piazza San Marco.

Dumas House

Dumas House is an example of the Post-War International style of architecture, with a modular grid building plan, glazed panelling and an open piazza.

Enrico Butti

He made a monument for the fallen set up in Viggiù in 1919, another for Gallarate (set up in 1924) in Piazza Risorgimento, and finally one in Varese (1925).

Farinata degli Uberti

This is why Palazzo Vecchio, begun in the 1290s, is not in the center of the piazza, as one might expect, but squeezed over to one side.

Genova Brignole railway station

The Roman-style facade, overlooking Piazza Verdi, is decorated with stucco and stone from the quarries of Montorfano.

Genova Piazza Principe railway station

The station derives its name from the adjacent Piazza del Principe (In Italian literally "plaza of the prince"), located next to the Palazzo del Principe (literally "palace of the prince") adjacent to the street called Via Andrea Doria in the Fassolo neighbourhood.

Genova Sampierdarena railway station

Within walking distance of the station are the stops served by the Volabus, the AMT fast bus link between the Genova Piazza Principe railway station and Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport.

Gerolamo Bortotti

Among his portrait work are a bust of Giuseppe Verdi at the Giardini, the portrait of Jacopo Castelli on the headstones to the Venetian patriots at Bocca di Piazza, and the bust of Pope Pius X (1907) placed on the landing of the Scalone at the Scuola di San Rocco.

Giovanni Brusca

Following the months after Riina's arrest, there were a series of bombings by the Corleonesi against several tourist spots on the Italian mainland – the Via dei Georgofili in Florence, Via Palestro in Milan and the Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano and Via San Teodoro in Rome, which left 10 people dead and 71 injured as well as severe damage to centres of cultural heritage such as the Uffizi Gallery.

Ignatius Piazza

Ignatius "Naish" Piazza (born 1960) is the founder and director of the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute in Pahrump, Nevada.

Kresge College

The architecture of Kresge College is designed to resemble a residential area in Tuscany, and includes a piazzetta next to the mail room and college office.

Loreto, Marche

Loreto's main monuments occupy the four sides of the piazza: the college of the Jesuits, the Palazzo Comunale (formerly the Palazzo Apostolico), designed by Bramante, with an art gallery with works of Lorenzo Lotto, Vouet and Annibale Carracci as well as a collection of maiolica, and the Shrine of the Holy House (Santuario della Santa Casa).

Luigi Premazzi

In Tiflis (Tbilisi, he painted a watercolor of the Via dei Calzolari Asiatici; Houses and Tartar Bazaar : Angolo di Case sul gran mercato; Angolo di case al ponte Aolabar, Via Sienskaja, The Magnificent Aolobar Bridge over the Kur River, The Right Bank of the Kur River, and the Piazza del gran Mercato Maydan.

Michael Somoroff

Somoroff’s "Absence of Subject", his homage to the legendary photographer August Sander, was chosen as the only exhibit to be placed on Piazza San Marco during the 2011 Venice Biennale in the long artistic history of the city.

Mitch Meluskey

NL Manager Bobby Cox wanted Meluskey to be Piazza's replacement, but was unable to contact Meluskey due to Mitch being on a trip to South Padre Island, Texas.

Palazzo Riso

The museum collects works by contemporary artists including Andrea Di Marco, Alessandro Bazan, Giovanni Anselmo, Emilio Isgrò, Domenico Mangano, Antonio Sanfilippo, Carla Accardi, Christian Boltanski, Croce Taravella, Francesco De Grandi, Francesco Simeti, Fulvio Di Piazza, Giulia Piscitelli, Laboratorio Saccardi, Luca Vitone, Paola Pivi, Pietro Consagra, Richard Long and Salvo.

Palermo Centrale railway station

Palermo Centrale lies in the middle of the city, at Julius Caesar square (Piazza Giulio Cesare), and its building has a multi-level structure.

Peretola

Peretola's center is at Piazza Garibaldi, on which sits the old Church of Santa Maria a Peretola, with its 1443 terra-cotta tabernacle by Luca della Robbia and a 1446 baptismal fountain by Francesco di Simone Ferrucci.

Piazza Pretoria

Piazza Pretoria also known as square of Shame is at the limits of the district of Kalsa, near the corner of Cassaro with Via Maqueda, just a few meters from the Quattro Canti, the exact center of the historic city of Palermo .

Piola

Gabrio Piola (1794–1850), an Italian physicist, after whom a piazza in Milan, and subsequently its metro station, were named

Quattro Canti

The piazza is octagonal, four sides being the streets; the remaining four sides are Baroque buildings, the near-identical facades of which contain fountains with statues of the four seasons, the four Spanish kings of Sicily, and of the patronesses of Palermo, (Cristina, Ninfa, Olivia, and Agata).

Quirinal Hill

In front lies the sloping Piazza del Quirinale where the pair of gigantic Roman marble "Horse Tamers" representing Castor and Pollux, found in the Baths of Constantine, were re-erected in 1588.

Reggio Emilia railway station

Reggio Emilia railway station is situated at Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, at the eastern edge of the city centre.

Renato Pengo

During 2008 the following exhibitions took place : "Traghettare il tempo" at the National Museums at Villa Pisani (Stra), "Oltre" at the Net Center in Padua and "Oltre l'immagine" at the Civic Museum at Piazza del Santo in Padua.

Roberto Dipiazza

The goal to reduce the “ICI” (a local tax on Real estate) was Di Piazza’s priority which implied a strict intervention on public expenses without touching the running of the municipality’s administrative structure and services, and it was a matter of debate in the city whether the services were really not touched.

San Gregorio della Divina Pietà

The church is in the rione Sant'Angelo of Rome at the Piazza Gerusalemme, north of Tiber Island at the north end of the Pons Fabricius (Ponte Quattro Capi) and east of the Great Synagogue of Rome (Tempio Maggiore).

Sogliano al Rubicone

On July 25th 2010 British rock band Deep Purple is expected to play Piazza Matteotti in Sogliano al Rubicone.

St Mark's Clocktower

The wings are sometimes attributed to Pietro Lombardi, who was later to rebuild the Procuratie on the same side of the Piazza, but the wings are of no great distinction and more probably designed by Gonella who was then the proto (buildings manager) of St Marks.

Teatro di San Carlo

It is located adjacent to the central Piazza del Plebiscito, and connected to the Royal Palace.

The Death of Bessie Smith

It premiered Off-Broadway at the York Playhouse on March 1, 1961, in a double bill with Albee's The American Dream. Directed by Lawrence Arrick, the "Nurse" was played by Rae Allen and Ben Piazza played "The Young Man".

Tom King's Coffee House

The shacks can be seen in many of the contemporary depictions of the piazza and features prominently in William Hogarth's Four Times of the Day (although it is rotated from its true position for the artistic effect of contrasting it with Inigo Jones' Church of St Paul).

Ulisse Cambi

From 1840s on he realised several important artworks such as the statues of Benvenuto Cellini and Carlo Goldoni (both in Florence) and the monumental fountain located in Prato (Piazza Duomo).

Via del Corso

Around the same time, the leading painter of the time, Pietro da Cortona, developed a design for a ‘fountain palace’ in the piazza, a palace with a large fountain at the base of the façade, but this precursor of the Trevi Fountain was not built.

Villa Pignatelli

The villa is perhaps the most striking building along the Riviera di Chiaia, the road bounding the north side of the Villa Comunale on the sea front between Mergellina and Piazza Vittoria.

White Square

It is known not only as a business center that houses such multinational companies as Deloitte, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, but also as a community landmark, largely due to its fountain (which, during the winter holiday season, is covered with a giant Christmas tree), piazza, mix of cafes and restaurants, community-focused events, and its view of the adjacent Nikolai Chudotvorets Church.


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