Piacenza

[ pyah-chen-tsah ]

noun

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

Piacenza

/ pjaˈtʃɛntsa /

noun

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

Example Sentences

Piacenza is on the direct road to the Italian Lakes via Milan, from which it is distant seventy kilometres.

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They were executed to the order of the abbess, Giovanna da Piacenza, and are more fitted for a "Trianon" than a convent.

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Panini, who obtained celebrity as a painter of architectural subjects, was born at Piacenza, and studied in Rome.

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During the night of the 8th of June a courier arrived from Murat, who, as we have said, was occupying Piacenza.

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About the same period another subject of the same state painted, in his native place of Piacenza.

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