How To Use Piazza In A Sentence

Throughout the book he provides precise information about streets, piazzas, and squares where certain events took place.
The city of Bordeaux exudes wealth: its enormous, elegant squares easily rival the Place de Vosges in Paris or Piazza Navona in Rome.
Next door and across the piazza is the 1983 museum, the last work of an enervated Stone, co-architect of the original 1939 Museum of Modern Art in New York. Easily Accessible Pleasures
Tehke via Craxi, nimetage Raphael Piazza Navonal ka Craxiks, siis on kõigile näha, mis laadi poliitika teie eesmärk on. Tatsutahime Diary Entry
He felt his eyes straying to the Croce al Trebbio, the little granite column in the center of the piazza upon which a little bronze warrior proudly bore his sword.

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A Euro title cruiserweight clash took on gladiatorial overtones as it was staged on Piazza del Colosseo where the fourth-century Arch of Constantine served as a backdrop. 2007 June 23 archive at eternallycool.net
I roll to the door and out on to the porch that Grandmother referred to as the piazza.
You approach the Centre from the piazza under a huge metal portico.
Nine months on, Mussolini himself was shot. His body was hanged upside down from a hook on the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, where crowds gathered to spit at, kick and even shoot him again.
The 7500 square metre piazza, to which the parvis is linked, is calculated to cater for a crowd of 15 000 people.
The thick curtain of the green vine that drapes the piazza is hung over its whole surface with the long drooping clusters of its starry flowers that lose all their sweetness upon the air, and show from the garden beneath like an immense airy veil of delicate white lace in the moonlight, -- a wonderful white glory. An Island Garden
Most days the cobbled streets and piazzas of the town are chock-full of delivery vans, family Fiats and boy racers gunning their small-engined Vespas.
And so you may be apprised of everything, there will come for you a black horned beast, not overbig, which will go capering about the piazza before you and making a great whistling and bounding, to terrify you; but, when he seeth that you are not to be daunted, he will come up to you quietly. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
Upon witnessing a horse being whipped by a coachman at the Piazza Carlo Alberto, Nietzsche threw his arms around the horse's neck and collapsed, never to return to full sanity.
The piazza is always dirty and noisy – that goes without saying – but on Jerry Junior
The piazza, a natural hippodrome of tall, stone buildings with the high peaks of the Abruzzi soaring up behind, has been laid with hundreds of tonnes of sand and planted with greenery to mark out a track round which 'cavaliere' -- the knights -- will race with lances raised at breakneck speeds. News - chicagotribune.com
Phillips believes that Mike Piazza's throwing and footwork is improved. USATODAY.com - National League East
An exchange of land was agreed and outline planning consent was granted in March 1962 for two towers facing on to an open piazza.
Toward the centre of town the roads opened out into wide piazzas bordered by cafes and pizzerias which filled the air with the smell of coffee, fresh bread, mixed herbs and fried mushrooms.
Visitors flock to Chiavari, Italy, for its seafood restaurants, chic clothing shops and a bustling food market held in Piazza Fenice, in the lee of a great white marble fort that serves as the Ligurian coastal town's municipal building. Crafting the Resilient Chiavarina
Harmonious sound is brought to life in the piazza daily by the bells of the campanile, to which the Loggetta is attached.
So we walk through the utterly captivating townlet of Chartres, with its cobbled lanes, old maisons, Italian style piazzas, haute shops and the Eure flowing gently, even a little murkily, at the base of the town.
The church is a short walk from Piazza Dante.
The nearby Brancusi workshop will be entirely rebuilt and an underground car park constructed under the piazza to accommodate tourist coaches.
But except for that sort of thing that always has to be done, even the floor in the piazza and the bannisters are the original wood. Oral History Interview with Edith Mitchell Dabbs, October 4, 1975. Interview G-0022. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Lining one side of the Forum are stone Medusa faces with eyes that still bedevil the onlooker, whilst at the far end, under a columned portico, the remains of a Roman bar recall present-day cafes in Florentine or Venetian piazzas.
He studied Egyptian hieroglyphs and helped Bernini with his fountain in the Piazza Navona.
The various quarters of Rome organized a parade in which were thirteen floats led by the gonfalonier of the city and the magistrates, which passed from the Piazza Navona to the Vatican, accompanied by the strains of music. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
Doran's pen decorated the page with ragged arrows, wide-mouthed circles, thick black underlines, until at last, quite winded, he looked up to discover daylight gone and the piazza filled with walking shadows. Two Poets
Rayed out from plaster-walls which have been soaking in it for five centuries, driven up in palpable waves of heat from the flags, lying like a lake of white metal in the Piazza, however recklessly this truly royal sun may beam, in Siena you will feel furtive and astare for sudden death. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett
The rear piazza is inset between small rooms which flank and open onto it.
Went to il duomo and Ponte Vecchio and Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della signora.
Why," she replied, "the rain has washed all the color out of our flags, and the piazza is covered with red and blue streams of water. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
Starting off in the main Piazza, you'll easily spot the famous Duomo, with its magnificent terracotta coloured cupola.
We do not need a whole new building with flying sheets of glass and yet another piazza of bars and cafes.
Every weekend during the sweltering month of August, from 1652 until 1866, the drains of the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi were blocked so that the waters would overflow and flood much of Piazza Navona, a sort of aqueous reincarnation of the naumachiae, or mock naval battles, that were once staged on the same site more than a thousand years ago. Archive 2009-07-01
There was all the people in the windows and piazzas to the back of the house, in their night-clothes, some screeching as if they had fits; and there was the nigger-wench in her white shimmey, dancing a rigadoon on the grass, and pulling out her wool, and thumping herself like a possessed body in the New Testament. Tales of Glauber-Spa
We stayed in a pensione in Via del Babuino, just around the corner from the piazza, run by an ancient couple who tried to make breakfast as English as possible - not realising that that was what we were escaping from.
It's challenging to tease apart one's love of the massive sculpture from the perfectly proportioned piazza, with its oft-copied egg-shaped travertine pavement pattern, where the statue was permanently placed in 1538. Sometimes Two Is Better Than One
The Harris family also built a new detached kitchen directly behind the rear piazza and converted the fireplaces in the principal rooms of the main floor to coal.
The Cavaliere, indeed, as became a poet, paragoned her in his song to all the pagan goddesses of antiquity; and doubtless these were finer to look at than mere women; but so, it seemed, was she; for, to believe my grandmother, she made other women look no more than the big French fashion-doll that used to be shown on Ascension days in the Piazza. The Duchess at Prayer
The baseball catcher Mike Piazza won a National League rookie of the year award and played with the pitcher Orel Hershiser. Corrections & Amplifications
Dov 'è la Permate auto bus per piazza San Pietro?
He will surround your Garden with new edifices and piazzas: though narrowed, it shall be replanted; dizened with hydraulic jets, cannon which the sun fires at noon; things bodily, things spiritual, such as man has not imagined; -- and in the Palais-Royal shall again, and more than ever, be the Sorcerer's Sabbath and Satan-at-Home of our Planet. The French Revolution
The presence of the conference centre necessitated a cut in the toroidal form so that a public piazza serving both old and new buildings could be created between them.
The rest of the year, the theatre will serve as a public piazza. Times, Sunday Times
Sunset on Valentines day, Piazza San Marco - Venice, diamond solitaire, down on one knee?
The first complete afternoon, we passed the duomo, Piazza della Signoria, the Arno River - and in the end we just wanted to find a quiet little restaurant, void of tourist talk and familiar accents.
More reminiscent of a film set than a real-life town, it boasts piazzas, churches and palaces aplenty, and offers an insight into the local heritage.
I saw the women with their thick dark hair, so much like mine, riding scooters together around the piazzas.
A glazed atrium to lead people around a new town centre piazza to the market hall could also be included in the design.
Standing in the 96-by-72-foot atrium (which Mr. Piano calls a piazza), one can also look into the park to the east and west, down long symmetrical wings 35 feet high. Piano's Forte: Museum as Ecosystem
The centre has a huge public piazza and in town centres such as this the entire development should be taken into account.
As we talk, a high-bouncing trampolinist periodically soars to window-level view from the piazza below.
It makes Piazza Affari look like a De Chirico painting," she said, referring to the surrealist artist, citing a particular attraction for the hand's "beautiful" veins. At Milan's Bourse, Finger Pointing Has Business Leaders Up in Arms
I am sitting, on a warm, airless night, at a table on the dark side of a Roman piazza.
In the late 1400s, northern Italian magic tales were publicly performed in city piazzas, sung or recited, and members of the audience could buy printed sheets from which the performers had taken their cues.
Agamemnon, jumping upon the piazza at the same moment, trod upon the paper parcel, which exploded at once with the shock, and he fell to the ground, while at the same moment the paste "fulminated" into a blue flame directly in front of The Peterkin Papers
I had a long piazza, encased in netting, where paterfamilias, with his pipe, could muse and gaze at the stars unmolested. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
They presented a frightening spectacle when they turned out in the piazza to protest.
Koblin had calmed down sufficiently to offer an evasive explanation, the guests trooped back to the piazza, and three games of auction pinocle, which had started in the dining-room after the tables had been cleared, came to an abrupt close. Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter
We pass by the monastery where De Vinci's Last Supper resides, zoom by the Duomo, under repair as always, head over to the main synagogue, dally at the Piazza, and make our way down the narrowest street in town. Danna Harman: Couch Surfing and Me
Its messenger was not a religious work of art, but a pagan one: the ancient bronze statue of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius 121–180 riding his horse, in the most noble silence and stillness, on a pedestal that rose from the center of a 12-pointed star, in the trapezoidal piazza Michelangelo designed for the Campidoglio. The Forever City
In San Francisco, Tom Glavine took a shutout into the ninth inning and Jason Phillips homered a day after being recalled from the minors to replace the injured Mike Piazza to lead New York.
Apart from an ornately carved Gothic tabernacle that rises up above one of the two large metal doorways that open out toward the Cathedral, all the visitor sees from the Piazza is a long, low, clean white stone wall.
The last element to be added was the magnificent triumphal arch at the entrance from the Piazza del Duomo.
They passed Donatello and Leonardo, and up toward the far end of the entrance toward the piazza was the statue of Cosimo, looking very wise and surprisingly warm, standing alongside his grandson. The Poet Prince
As we juggled our time between morning visits and lazy afternoons in and out of piazzas and patisseries, I wondered what would have appealed to him.
The tradition dates back to the 16th century, when Italian war veterans decorated piazzas with pastel images of the Madonna to earn donations from pilgrims.
In the first, a man was filmed on closed-circuit television cameras hitting a marble statue on a fountain in the Piazza Navona.
The piazzas of each town or village are famous for the parading of people through them at night with friends and relatives.
In the meantime, citizens are rallying in the piazzas, collecting signatures and marching around buildings.
I met a German lady who sat in the piazza with a dictionary so that she could write a long letter to me.
No one is sure why the term piazza survives here while vanishing most everywhere else, but Stories: Local News
That was how it happened that Bettina Bailey, sitting on Eliza Bailey's front piazza, decked out in chintz cushions, – the piazza, of course, – saw a dusty machine come up the drive and stop with a flourish at the steps. Tish
The scallop-shaped meadow became Piazza del Campo, fronted by the Palazzo Pubblico, which stands proud on the lip.
A huge blue slug slimes its way toward the city's chief pedestrian piazza.
Yes, Rodriguez was the preeminent catcher of his era or at the very least, in a dead heat with Mike Piazza, and if he succeeds in reaching 3,000 career hits -- well, let's just say his body of work would be that of a first-ballot electee. Can we still call Pudge a "future Hall-of-Famer"?
(Most of the piazzas in Venice are called campo, meaning "field" in Italian, because they were originally planted with grass and trees.) Venice Crossings: A Traghetto Tour Reveals the City's Other Side
The steel frame and the scrim it supports are folded out at the base and extended around the open edges of the piazza as a canopy.
A sharp-edged, clean cut, massive sculptural monolith is implanted in the middle of a vast piazza.
So full were the streets of Rome between Piazza Venezia and Piazza San Giovanni that the funeral cortège passed with difficulty through a crowd that was estimated variously at between one and two million people.
As one enters Via Garibaldi from Piazza Marose down the vistaed street where a precious strip of the blue sky seems more lovely for the shadowy way, the first house on the right is Palazzo Cambiaso, built by Alessi, while on the left, No. 2, is Palazzo Gambaro, which belonged to the Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
Replicated in countless subsequent homes and public buildings, the piazza acts as a graceful connector between indoors and out.
Expansive windows on the piazza facade pull in natural light that sparkles off the waxed stucco on the inner wall.
Having given our names at the gate, we repaired to the dogana, or custom-house, where our trunks and carriage were searched; and here we were surrounded by a number of servitori de piazza, offering their services with the most disagreeable importunity. Travels through France and Italy
Being a known equerry to the Prince, I was often peppered with questions of this nature while out about the piazza.
Before the fire, he revealed plans for three apartment blocks and an Italian-style piazza.
Page 246 cities, thermal rays which part at certain angles from the surface impinge against walls, the sides of houses, porticoes and piazzas, and after several reflections are, in great part, returned to the earth. Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, For the Year 1861. Illustrated by Statistical Tables. Prepared under the Authority of the City Council by Frederick A. Ford
Falling over themselves to focus on Inigo Jones's church and piazza at Covent Garden, historians of Stuart London have overlooked the city's first mews (now Floral Street).
Here will be the social arena of the whole community, with an arcade round the piazza serving shops, offices and cafes.
He said the proposed office blocks and apartments would be linked to the city centre and included a number of public squares, parks and piazzas.
On the piazza is the shop of bookbinder Paolo Olbi, where you can find elegant hand-bound journals. Venice Crossings: A Traghetto Tour Reveals the City's Other Side
There is a piazza - or square - around almost every corner.
The second observes that ‘whenever possible the space of the trecento piazza tends to take on its own internal or abstract formal order’ as it strives to achieve formal regularity by various means.
As we marched down to the main piazza at the town hall, we were all still in a daze. A Channel of Peace
Very laggingly from around the piazza corner the girl reappeared. Little Eve Edgarton
Sofas are dotted around for guests, in addition to a loggia overlooking the piazza. Times, Sunday Times
The arcaded splendour of the Piazza del Duomo seemed to effortlessly shrug off the scaffolding in place when we visited - testament to the awesome power of the place.
The major entertainment of the day, as elsewhere in Italy, was once the passegiata, when men and women -- chaperoned, of course, or with friends -- would parade up and down before dinner on Sassari's central square, the Piazza d'Italia. A. Colin Wright: Sardinia: Then and Now
After leaving the Piazza, we get a glimpse of Hadrian's Mole, and of the rusty Tiber, as it hurries, "_retortis littore Etrusco violenter undis_" as of old, under the statued bridge of St. Angelo, -- and then we plunge into long, damp, narrow, dirty streets. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859
So we walk through the utterly captivating townlet of Chartres, with its cobbled lanes, old maisons, Italian style piazzas, haute shops and the Eure flowing gently, even a little murkily, at the base of the town.
In the predella, which is very beautiful, and painted by him likewise in distemper, he depicted S. Francis receiving the S.igmata; S. Anthony of Padua, who, in order to convert some heretics, performs the miracle of the Ass, which makes obeisance before the sacred Host; and S. Bernardino of S.ena, who is preaching to the people of his city on the Piazza de 'S.gnori. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
The new look Armentieres Square, with its continental-style piazza and canal lock with boats passing through, is the centrepiece of Stalybridge.
Il Desiderio Preso per la Coda is a little-known jewel near the Piazza Navona.
Wide piazzas flanked the house on every side, screened and awninged from the sun and wind and rain. In Her Own Right
Piazza del Popolo is where Fellini used to get his espresso fix, at Bar Canova Piazza del Popolo, 16, a classic morning coffee and evening aperitivo hangout. Finding Fellini
His splendid piazza in Vancouver, which gently makes green public terraces in the middle of the city to greet the court building is surely one of the great triumphs of twentieth-century urban design.
Some years ago, one of the old houses in the piazza, now ruthlessly whitewashed, is said to have borne distinct traces of external decorations by Cesare Vecellio, the cousin and pupil of Titian. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
Then it was back through the maze of streets to relax in the central piazza, enjoy a coffee and watch the sun go down. The Sun
Other fortifications in Valletta that will be recuperated and made accessible to the public as part of the project are - St Andrew's tenaille and ditch, the piazza basse and sally-ports in St Michael, St John's and St James 'bastions, and the two piazza basse in St Andrew's bastion. Timesofmalta.com
The emergence of the Greek revival style is evidenced by the rear piazza, which was supported by four Roman Doric columns, each hewn from a solid log.
Piazza Duomo suffered terribly, although the cathedral itself remained largely intact.
As for the proposal, the stark image of the piazza is hardly sympathetic to the trees already on the bank of the Foss.
This was Hamilton Grange's second move; in 1889, a developer offered it free for the taking, and the nearby church, after razing the house's portico and piazzas, rolled it two blocks down from the top of Harlem Heights, where it overlooked both Long Island Sound and the Hudson River, and shoehorned it in endwise to serve as a rectory. Hamilton's Shining House on a Hill
The piazza is the terminus for Via del Corso, a popular shopping street that was also the main road leading into Rome from the north in antiquity, but it is also flanked by a fifteenth-century palace, the Palazzo Venezia, built by a Venetian Cardinal and many centuries later occupied by Mussolini, as well as a church, San Marco, that was founded in the fourth century AD. Rome With A View at eternallycool.net
The long-term scheme is expected to have a market square or piazza and an architectural feature to provide focal points and increase the use of the site throughout the year.
The family also built a new detached kitchen directly behind the rear piazza and converted the fireplaces in the principal rooms of the main floor to coal.
Here, folks stop to ‘take a coffee’ in one of the town's many piazzas, or public squares, as well as chat with friends during the nightly passeggiata, or evening stroll.
This came with the proviso that Lodovico not remove any of the three Guicciardini coats of arms, and that he not place his own blazon anywhere on the facade, ‘especially on the outer side that faces onto the piazza.’
Three sides of the Piazza were bordered by arched colonnades, tiers upon tiers of them, like a massive wedding cake.
Spanish mansions, with the usual charmingly 'escalloped' roof, all resting on a prolonged colonnade or piazza, strange, old-fashioned, and original, running round to a vast extent, which the sensible town has decreed is never to be interfered with. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
Piazza was down one strike and no balls when he slammed Rivera's second pitch deep to center field.
Cheaper hotels are mainly ranged around the Piazza Garibaldi, though the accommodation can be basic.
They were seated at a table outside a pub in a pleasant piazza close by St Paul's.
In the piazza is a stone monument dedicated to workers killed while building the Frejus rail tunnel linking Italy and France. USATODAY.com - Torino's magic not as simple as black, white
There are several banks near the campo in Piazza Tolomei, and include Banchi di Sotto and Via di Citta.
Will you, dear, without putting yourself to too much inconvenience by overhaste, direct the 'Nazione' people to send the journal, to which we must subscribe for three months, to S.E. le General Comte de Noue, Comandante della piazza di Roma. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Piazza itself, (which is situated in the centre of the city, just beyond the Pantheon,) and all the adjacent streets, are lined with booths covered with every kind of plaything for children. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
Enjoy your beautifully landscaped yard from your rear piazza, or your side gazebo as the warm island breezes encircles your family with comfort.
To give an idea of the feeling which has always been common in Rome against the Jesuits, it is enough to quote the often told popular legend about the windy Piazza del Gesù, where their principal church stands, adjoining what was once their convent, or monastery, as people say nowadays, though Doctor Johnson admits no distinction between the words, and Dryden called a nunnery by the latter name. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
Meanwhile, Giovanni Antonio Canal, famed as Canaletto, will feature at the Dickinson gallery in Jermyn Street with a pair of masterful Venetian views of the Piazza San Marco and its ducal palace from circa 1755 price for the pair: €4.5 million. A Week of Masters Descends
In 1987, the tower was declared as part of the Piazza dei Miracoli UNESCO World Heritage Site along with the neighbouring cathedral, baptistery and cemetery.
A public piazza will face the River Thames and create a new riverside walkway and wetlands area.
Sculpting negative spaces, reconfiguring campi, creating a second piazza. Venice on Stilts
I brettinoresi determinarono di alzare in piazza una colonna con intorno tanti anelli di ferro, quanto le nobili famiglie di quel castello, e chi fosse arrivato ed avesse legato il cavallo ad uno de 'predetti anelli, doveva esser ospite della famiglia, che indicava l' anello cui il cavallo era attaccato. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
Beaches are popular recreation areas, especially with young people, who also enjoy ‘hanging out’ at the local piazza, or town square.
You might be able to wear the same thing every day, but your baby will undoubtedly begin spitting up after every meal, and your toddler will drip gelato on her dress and crawl in filthy piazzas.
For the past 16 years, the Royal Opera House has screened live relays to the Covent Garden piazza, reaching thousands of fans and passers-by.
Where the International Style promised the same glass tower in a plaza anywhere in the world, postmodernism believed in history and context, the more the merrier: The elegant black glass with tasteful reflecting pools of the Seagram Building in New York versus the riot of classical arches and ionic columns, fountains and broken pediments of Charles Moore's Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans. History, Repeating Itself
After five years in an office perched over the Piazza Diavolo in the broken heart of Kings Cross, I've decamped to the cool marble splendour of the city's optimistically named Trust Building.
Arriving in Piazza del Duomo was something incredible.
Jones planned the whole area along Italian lines, in fact, with a large, public piazza in front of the church, lined on two sides by arcaded houses. The Renaissance in Britain: examples from the era
Indeed the poisonous partisanship of present politics present a pernicious paradigm of parsimony preventing perspicacity from penetrating the public piazza of … of …. oh, poo! Think Progress » Fox News VP: We ‘hope’ Palin will be ‘polarizing’ as a Fox News contributor.

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