(n.) An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda.
Example Sentences:
(1) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
(2) About 4,000 government-issued shovels were handed out in several main piazzas to Romans trying to clear their streets before a freeze forecast for Sunday evening.
(3) But because Piazza didn't issue a stay, Arkansas' 75 county clerks were left to decide for themselves whether to grant marriage licenses.
(4) As a small group of Abbado's relatives, including two of his children, looked on, Barenboim, La Scala's current music director, appeared quietly moved as the commemorative performance ended after about 20 minutes to dignified applause from the piazza.
(5) For Fo, the key to understanding Grillo is not in 21st-century Italy but in the 13th century, when storytellers – giullari – roamed Italy, entertaining crowds in piazzas with lewd and ancient tales interwoven with satirical attacks on local potentates.
(6) The sea voyage takes roughly 1½ hours; tickets start at €10pp; advance booking is recommended during high season Ventotene Facebook Twitter Pinterest The piazza in Ventotene.
(7) Curtis' new time-travel romantic comedy About Time, starring Domnhall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams has been invited to screen in the 8000-seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue, alongside the award-winning Chilean film Gloria , and the much-admired US indie Blue Ruin, fresh from the Director's Fortnight at Cannes.
(8) St Paul's Cathedral has denied asking the protesters camped out on its piazza as part of the Occupy London Stock Exchange demonstration to leave.
(9) If we had not done an electoral campaign in the midst of the people, in the piazzas – hard-nosed and open-faced in a very strong way – we would have been carried away, as happened in other countries."
(10) I pushed my way through the crowd, burst into the empty piazza, and found myself in dead space, caught in a stand-off between two battle lines – on one side police in blue-black riot gear, drumming batons on their clear, hard shields, and on the other a rough assembly of kids and young adults, mainly black or Arab, boys and girls, dressed in hip-hop fashion, singing, laughing, and throwing stuff.
(11) In Whitehaven, outside the struggling Pizza Piazza and next to the peeling paint of the closed-down Adrenaline tattoo parlour, Mrs Burns says no one wants atomic waste dumps in the area but you have to be realistic: "Do-gooders want to shut down nuclear, but without Sellafield we would all be crippled."
(12) He publicly backed Grillo this year, co-writing a book on the comedian's fledgling political movement and giving him a ringing endorsement at a packed rally in Milan's Piazza Duomo days before the election.
(13) On Friday, the head of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest US lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights, praised Piazza's ruling.
(14) The 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan left 16 dead and more than 80 wounded.
(15) It also has nine restaurants and five bars, more than 60,000 square feet of meeting and conference space, a 4,700 space parking facility, a spa and fitness centre and a 100,000 sq ft events piazza.
(16) If you don’t have time for an excursion, join the queue of students and office workers for a blow-out sandwich at Walter Clinica del Panino or the legendary Pepen , both a few metres from the central Piazza Garibaldi.
(17) Jo Piazza , Senior Digital Editor, Current TV When we start thinking about whether Sheryl is restarting the women's movement I think it is interesting to note her word choice.
(18) We base ourselves just outside the fishing town of Rovinj, its harbour-side cafes and cobbled piazzas overlooked by streets of handsome baroque and renaissance buildings, built between 1283-1797 when Rovinj was the Venetian empire's prized Blue Pearl.
(19) Annalisa Piazza at Newedge Strategy said: Energy inflation explains most of the upswing.
(20) These are just a few with more here : Il Balon di Torino and Gelateria Popolare Get up early and head down to the Balon behind the Piazza della Repubblica, or Porta Palazzo as it’s more commonly known.
Plaza
Definition:
(n.) A public square in a city or town.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following year, JFK was killed in Dealey Plaza, becoming the lost father to a grieving nation.
(2) The 1,127 killed at Rana Plaza in the Dhaka suburb of Savar are among at least 1,800 Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed in fires or building collapses since 2005.
(3) "Anniversaries should be to celebrate good things, not something like Rana Plaza."
(4) After years of foot dragging, three global agreements have emerged in an attempt to improve matters since the Rana Plaza tragedy in April.
(5) WEEKEND GETAWAY Côte d'Azur TO CELEBRATE THAT DEAL The spring tasting menu at Alain Ducasse's restaurant at the Plaza Athénée will set you back €360 ($520).
(6) Last year retailers sourcing garments from Bangladesh faced similar calls to quit the country following the collapse of the Rana Plaza building.
(7) Women also make up the majority of the 5,000 people – disabled survivors and families of victims – who are still owed compensation by the brands that used Rana Plaza.
(8) This week, another UK event will focus on those left in poverty by Rana Plaza.
(9) A day after making a personal appeal to the US and Cuban leaders to end their half-century of estrangement , Francis issued his plea to Colombia’s warring factions from Revolution Plaza at the end of his Sunday mass.
(10) Clothing retailers River Island and Matalan have signed up to a factory safety deal in Bangladesh after pressure from campaigners in the wake of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, which killed more than 1,000 factory workers.
(11) Many debate where the blame lies for tragedies such as Rana Plaza, and argue over who has the responsibility to prevent them in the future.
(12) Women whose children and grandchildren had disappeared organized themselves as Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo to search for their missing loved ones.
(13) At about 10.30pm last night we received multiple calls about shots being fired from inside the plaza,” police chief John Mina told reporters.
(14) This is why it’s so important to name those responsible and not leave it as if this is an a-historic massacre.” Zedconte, 26, works as a consultant in Guadalajara Protest reach Plaza de la Liberacion in Guadalajara Protestors sit around an improvised podium where student victims and missing names where remembered.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shahorbanu, whose son Siddique was killed in the Rana Plaza collapse.
(16) On Saturday afternoons there is outdoor dancing at nearby Plaza de Danzón.
(17) The independent Plaza Art Cinema is a favourite of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
(18) She said Trump made advances on her, including groping her under the table during a dinner the following night at the Plaza Hotel.
(19) Two years after Rana Plaza, have conditions approved in Bangladesh’s factories?
(20) Prior to Rana Plaza there had already been a string of disasters in Bangladesh’s garment industry, culminating in the Tazreen factory fire that killed 112 people six months earlier.