Word: piazza
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...store mall that cost $170 million to build on the famed shopping street. Known as Two Rodeo, the two-block project, which is designed to look as if it had been in place for a century, features an Italianate cobblestone lane called Via Rodeo that comes complete with a piazza, sculpted travertine fountains and a staircase patterned after the Spanish Steps in Rome...
...sunny Sunday morning in July, near the height of the Venetian tourist season, the public gardens are empty. Where is the audience for the new? The national pavilions, that whimsical collage of defunct official styles, are as deserted as the dream piazza in a De Chirico, populated only by young guardiani doing their nails in the humid silence. It reminds you of the old nursery rhyme...
...glass, has long been loved too well. Each year 2.3 million boisterous and devoted suitors importune this village of 79,000, clogging its narrow walkways, cluttering its wide canals, disturbing its hushed churches and driving its harried residents to distraction. Last summer when 200,000 fans camped in the Piazza San Marco for a Pink Floyd concert, it took the Italian army three days to clean...
Pollution protest. Rome's nature lovers plan to put their bodies on the line April 21 when they stage a sit-down, maybe even a lie-in, along one of the Italian capital's traffic-choked central thoroughfares. Survivors can attend a concert in a nearby piazza...