Word: piazza
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
More than 30,000 spectators perch on towers, hang off balconies and window sills and pack into the center of Piazza del Campo--Siena's main square--to catch a glimpse of the momentous horse race...
Wearing the traditional costumes and insignia of their contrada, they circle the piazza three times, inspired by the cheering crowd...
...eastern-front panzer divisions just as the Allies under Montgomery and George Patton were landing on Sicily. Germany intervened in Italy after Mussolini was overthrown on July 25, 1943. (On April 28, 1945, partisan forces would shoot him dead and string up his body by the heels in the Piazza Loreto in Milan.) It would take the Allies nearly a year to fight their way into Rome. By then, the true second front in Europe was about to open; on June 6, 1944, the Allies landed in Normandy...
Racial incidents are now commonplace. In May, Somalians demonstrated in Rome's Piazza Venezia to protest overcrowding and poor housing. A shelter for immigrants near the Colosseum was burned last January, and in December two gypsies were shot and killed at their campsite in Bologna. Under tougher immigration laws that went into effect last year, Italy expelled more than 6,000 illegal immigrants and turned back 13,435 from its borders in the first four months of this year...
...city of Syracuse in Sicily, there is a building that has served as the spiritual center of the place for more than 2500 years. Now a church, it frowns down on the piazza from behind a weighty Baroque facade, but on its flanks, embedded in the unadorned side walls, one can still see the scarred columns of the Greek temple it once was. The spaces between them are blocked up with the masonry of centuries now, and the interior of the building; which in pre-Christian times opened up freely on the disorderly life of the city, has been made...