piazza

• “No one is sure why the term piazza survives here while vanishing most everywhere else, but”

  Stories: Local News

• “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

• “The piazza is always dirty and noisy – that goes without saying – but on”

  Jerry Junior

• “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

• “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

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Easily Accessible Pleasures

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Poet Prince

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Piano's Forte: Museum as Ecosystem

• “On the piazza is the shop of bookbinder Paolo Olbi, where you can find elegant hand-bound journals.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Venice Crossings: A Traghetto Tour Reveals the City's Other Side

• “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

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