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While the group phase was reaching its dramatic culmination in North America, retiree Stefania Tentarelli went to her cobblestone local piazza to watch fellow pensioners play an 18th-century Neapolitan card game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

The US-born pope drew excited crowds when he arrived in his popemobile at a piazza in Acerra, a city of around 60,000 people.

From Barron's ● May 23, 2026

Enzo Resta, a longtime resident and founder of the Bolinas Film Festival, compared the Bolinas post office to an Italian piazza — a place of serendipitous run-ins and “the poetry of community engagement.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2025

He then greeted the crowd before being wheeled out of the piazza.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

He glanced up at the ship as if to get his bearings, then pointed across the piazza.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Bari Vecchia—or “old” Bari—is a dizzying but inviting warren of white-stone alleyways and sunny piazzas that make up the historic heart of the city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

Norman Powell celebrated his 30th birthday in May by touring Italy’s Amalfi Coast, posting pictures of himself in piazzas and on private boats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2024

Several Italian streets, piazzas and lecture halls are named after him, as is a moon crater near the Mare Humorum.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023

As soon as the final whistle was blown in their game at Udinese, Napoli's 1-1 draw enough to clinch the Serie A title, hundreds of people crammed together in piazzas, singing of their joy.

From BBC ● May 4, 2023

Everywhere he looked, there were wide piazzas and traffic-clogged streets.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Troops were confined to barracks and kept in readiness for any emergency; strong posses of police guarded all strategic points; cavalry bivouacked in many piazze of many towns.

From Time Magazine Archive

Young volunteers rushed about with paintbrushes, paste pots and bills, to plaster Italy's piazze and palazzi, walls and ruins with the confusingly mixed-up slogans and emblems of about 18 different political parties.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sacchetti describes the borghi,-180- contrade, and piazze of Florence; and his speech is seasoned with rare Tuscan salt of wit.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds

The streets and piazze of the city are celebrated for their splendid palaces, formerly, and in many cases even to-day the residences of the noble families of Florence.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

In the first days of spring, from one end of the island to the other, the villagers assemble, and light great fires in the piazze and at the cross-roads.

From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester