Piacenza

American  

[pyah-chen-tsah] / pyɑˈtʃɛn tsɑ /

noun

1. a city in N Italy, on the Po River.

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Piacenza British  

/ pjaˈtʃɛntsa /

noun

1. Latin name: Placentia.  a town in N Italy, in Emilia-Romagna on the River Po. Pop: 95 594 (2001)

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Example Sentences

Giorgio Armani was born in Piacenza, northern Italy, on 11 July 1934.

From BBC

Born in the northern Italian town of Piacenza in 1934, he studied medicine before embarking on a career in fashion and eventually launching his label with his late partner, Sergio Galeotti.

From BBC

Arianna, a student from Piacenza in Italy, said she was "really happy" that the Pope was getting better.

From BBC

The change took time but has been driven by the need to save water in an increasingly dry country, said Professor Marco Trevisan, Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the Catholic University of Piacenza, and has been helped by a flowering of agri-tech start-ups.

From Reuters

He painted the latter around 1513 for the church of San Sisto in Piacenza, Italy.

From Scientific American