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unusual facts about province of Piacenza


Battle of the Trebia

The battle took place in the flat country of the Province of Piacenza on the left bank of the Trebbia River, a shallow, braided stream, not far south from its confluence (from the south) with the Po river.


Lorenzo Respighi

Born at Cortemaggiore, Piacenza, he studied mathematics and natural philosophy, first at Parma and then at the University of Bologna, where he obtained his degree ad honorem in 1845.

Pecoraro

There is the possibility this name was also derived from a locality, that of Pecorara, in the Province of Piacenza, Italy.

Piffero

It is used to play music in the tradition of the quattro province, an area of mountains and valleys in the north-west Italian Apennines which includes parts of the four provinces of Alessandria, Genoa, Piacenza and Pavia.

Vittorio Curtoni

Curtoni was born at San Pietro in Cerro, in the province of Piacenza, and entered the Italian science fiction world at a very young age.


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