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Landmark Attractions In Piacenza

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Piacenza is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, the capital of the eponymous province. The etymology is long-standing, tracing an origin from the Latin verb placēre, to please. In French, and occasionally in English, it is called Plaisance. The name means a pleasant abode, or as James Boswell reported some of the etymologists of his time to have translated it, comely. This was a name of good omen.Piacenza is located at a major crossroads at the intersection of Route E35/A1 between Bologna and Milan, and Route E70/A21 between Brescia and Tortona. Piacenza is also at the confluence of the Trebbia, draining the northern Apen...
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  • 1. Piazza Cavalli Piacenza
    The Gallerie di Piazza Scala is a modern and contemporary museum in Milan, Italy. Located in Piazza della Scala in the Palazzo Brentani and the Palazzo Anguissola, it hosts 195 artworks from the collections of Fondazione Cariplo with a strong representation of nineteenth century Lombard painters and sculptors, including Antonio Canova and Umberto Boccioni. A new section was opened in the Palazzo della Banca Commerciale Italiana on October 25, 2012 with 189 art works from the twentieth century. During the 2017 Corporate Art Awards Ceremony hosted by the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinal Palace , Gallerie di Piazza Scala received a special award as “Patron of the XXI century” .
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  • 2. Basilica di Sant'Antonino Piacenza
    The following is a list of Roman Catholic basilicas in Italy, listed by diocese. As of 30 June 2016, there are 573 basilicas in Italy. The date of creation as a basilica is in brackets.
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  • 3. Basilica di Santa Maria di Campagna Piacenza
    The Basilica of Santa Maria di Campagna is a Roman Catholic basilica church in the city of Piacenza in the Province of Piacenza, Italy. It was built in a Greek-Cross plan with an octagonal dome in a high Renaissance style in the 16th century.
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  • 4. Duomo Di Piacenza Piacenza
    Piacenza Cathedral , is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Piacenza, Italy. It was built between 1122 and 1233 and is one of the most valuable examples of a Romanesque cathedral in northern Italy. The dedication is to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and to Saint Justina. It is the seat of the diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio. The cathedral has a total external length of 85 m, and a façade height of 32 m, dimensions which make it the largest Romanesque church in Emilia-Romagna. The façade, in Veronese pink marble and gilded stone, is horizontally divided by a gallery that dominates the three portals, decorated with capitals and Romanesque statues. The interior has a nave and two aisles, divided by twenty-five massive pillars. Its noteworthy frescoes were made in the 14th-16th centuries by Camillo ...
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  • 5. Chiesa di San Francesco Piacenza
    The entry Church of San Francesco includes churches linked to the devotion to St Francis of Assisi and the Franciscan order. They mainly include churches or monasteries in the Italian peninsula in the following cities/towns and regions: San Francesco, Acquasparta, Umbria San Francesco alle Scale, Ancona, Marche San Francesco, Arezzo, Tuscany San Francesco, Assisi, Umbria San Francesco, Atri, Abruzzo San Francesco, Bologna, Reggio-Emilia San Francesco, Canicattì, Sicily San Francesco, Casalbuttano, Lombardy San Francesco, Cortona, Tuscany San Francesco di Paola, Florence, Tuscany San Francesco, Grosseto, Tuscany San Francesco, Larino, Molise San Francesco, Lucca, Tuscany San Francesco, Lucignano, Tuscany San Francesco, Mantua, Lombardy San Francesco, Mondavio, Marche San Francesco delle Mo...
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  • 10. Stazione di Piacenza Piacenza
    Milano Centrale is the main railway station of the city of Milan, Italy and is the largest train station in Europe by volume. The station is a terminus and located at the northern end of central Milan. It was officially inaugurated in 1931 to replace the old central station , which was a transit station but with a limited number of tracks and space, so could not handle the increased traffic caused by the opening of the Simplon tunnel in 1906. Milano Centrale has high speed connections to Turin in the west, Venice via Verona in the east and on the north-south mainline to Bologna, Rome, Naples and Salerno. The Simplon and Gotthard railway lines connect Milano Centrale to Bern and Geneva via Domodossola and Zürich via Chiasso in Switzerland. Destinations of inter-city and regional railways r...
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