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While the group phase was reaching its dramatic culmination in North America, retiree Stefania Tentarelli went to her cobblestone local piazza to watch fellow pensioners play an 18th-century Neapolitan card game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

The US-born pope drew excited crowds when he arrived in his popemobile at a piazza in Acerra, a city of around 60,000 people.

From Barron's ● May 23, 2026

Three elements cinched it: The views from the road above were stunning, the piazza charmed, and what would become something of a location star for rapt viewers, “the incredible network of stairs, alleys and passageways.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

One camp, at Warwick University, has been set up in the town's piazza for a week.

From BBC ● May 1, 2024

Red, black, and white diamonds, a grand piazza boasting her ticket booth and a gondola waiting to take her inside.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Bari Vecchia—or “old” Bari—is a dizzying but inviting warren of white-stone alleyways and sunny piazzas that make up the historic heart of the city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

Norman Powell celebrated his 30th birthday in May by touring Italy’s Amalfi Coast, posting pictures of himself in piazzas and on private boats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2024

Several Italian streets, piazzas and lecture halls are named after him, as is a moon crater near the Mare Humorum.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023

As soon as the final whistle was blown in their game at Udinese, Napoli's 1-1 draw enough to clinch the Serie A title, hundreds of people crammed together in piazzas, singing of their joy.

From BBC ● May 4, 2023

Everywhere he looked, there were wide piazzas and traffic-clogged streets.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Troops were confined to barracks and kept in readiness for any emergency; strong posses of police guarded all strategic points; cavalry bivouacked in many piazze of many towns.

From Time Magazine Archive

Young volunteers rushed about with paintbrushes, paste pots and bills, to plaster Italy's piazze and palazzi, walls and ruins with the confusingly mixed-up slogans and emblems of about 18 different political parties.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the first days of spring, from one end of the island to the other, the villagers assemble, and light great fires in the piazze and at the cross-roads.

From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester

Sacchetti describes the borghi,-180- contrade, and piazze of Florence; and his speech is seasoned with rare Tuscan salt of wit.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds

The life in the piazze and on the streets, the crowds in the shops, the pageants, the lights, the stir, the color, all mightily took the eye of the young Dane.

From A Midnight Fantasy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich