Word: piazzas
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...Eighth Army trudged into Gessapolina, a hilltop hamlet on Italy's Adriatic flank. War had wrecked the terraced cluster of dwellings, scattered their brick walls, shattered their oaken rafters. Through the debris, toward Allied soldiers gathered at the municipal piazza hurried five Italians. One of them paused to wash his hands in the piazza's muddy fountain. Another cried...
Three weeks before, the Germans had ordered the 4,000 villagers out of town. Then the Germans proceeded to blow the place to bits. The destruction was savage, efficient. Only the piazza fountain, a gift from villagers who had emigrated to the U.S. seemed to have escaped...
Toward the Piazza. The next day at dawn, the Canadians spilled into the town's edge, found the Germans dug in. Usually Jerry held on to a position as long as possible, then withdrew after blowing up bridges, demolishing buildings, mining and booby trapping. This time, fresh troops of the First Paratroop Division, under the command of heavy-jowled, cigar-smoking Major General Richard Heidrich, had orders to fight to the last man and the last round...
...second day the Canadians edged in farther. Jerry showered the streets with fragments from airbursts. On the third day Canadian tanks, emblazoned with the Maple Leaf, poked up to one side of the piazza, where half the cathedral's dome stood up on the sky line like a cracked egg. Allied Kittyhawks bombed and strafed the German lines north of the town, Allied artillery crumped around them...
...Catholicism. There were no human casualties. St. Peter's had not been hit, but many of its windows had been shattered. According to a Vatican City broadcast, the famed Studio del Musaico (mosaic workshops) stood unroofed, the Governor's Palace and the old buildings along the Piazza di Santa Marta showed ugly scars...