piazza
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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
“Sitting outside in the sun on a beautiful piazza with your friends and food is hugely aspirational for the rest of the world,” Hunt said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
The temporary ice rink was constructed in the centre of the town's piazza, leaving Pavrotti's statue knee-deep in ice and surrounded by perspex walls.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
Enzo Resta, a longtime resident and founder of the Bolinas Film Festival, compared the Bolinas post office to an Italian piazza — a place of serendipitous run-ins and “the poetry of community engagement.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2025
He filled his pockets with seeds and scattered them with both his hands across the piazza.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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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
“We wanted to see the sights in Florence and have long lunches in the piazzas, but instead we were stuck in our overpriced villas under the air-conditioning.”
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2024
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
Everywhere he looked, there were wide piazzas and traffic-clogged streets.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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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
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To satisfy this urge, densely packed cities have yielded up their most precious commodity�space�to create the great, timeless squares, piazze, places and Pl�tse.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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The streets and piazze of the city are celebrated for their splendid palaces, formerly, and in many cases even to-day the residences of the noble families of Florence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
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