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Piacenza

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Piacenza (pyächān`tsä), city (1991 pop. 102,268), capital of Piacenza prov., in Emilia-Romagna, on the Po River. It is an agricultural, commercial, and industrial center. Manufactures include agricultural machinery, chemicals, furniture, buttons, and food products. The city was a Roman stronghold (called Colonia Placentia) against the Gauls and was later occupied by the Goths, the Lombards, and the Franks. A free commune by the 12th cent., Piacenza joined the Lombard League. In 1545 it formed, with Parma Parma , city (1991 pop. 170,520), capital of Parma prov., in Emilia-Romagna, N Italy, on the Parma River and on the Aemilian Way. It is a rich agricultural market, a transportation junction, and a major industrial center.
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 and its territory, the duchy of Parma and Piacenza, ruled, until 1731, by the Farnese Farnese , Italian noble family that ruled Parma and Piacenza from 1545 to 1731. In the 12th cent. the Farnese held several fiefs in Latium. They became one of the most prominent families in Rome and were Guelph supporters of the papacy.
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 family. Noteworthy buildings include the Lombard-Gothic Palazzo del Comune (1281); the cathedral (1122–1233), with frescoes by Guercino; and the churches of San Savino (12th cent.) and Madonna di Campagna (16th cent.).
Piacenza
a town in N Italy, in Emilia-Romagna on the River Po. Pop.: 95 594 (2001)

Piacenza 

a city in northern Italy, on the Po River. Capital of Piacenza Province in the region of Emilia-Romagna. Population, 106,800 (1971). An important transportation junction and a river port, Piacenza is the center of an area where petroleum and natural gas are extracted. Piacenza’s industries include machine building, chemicals, cement, food, and textiles.



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The Gardens at San Lorenzo in Piacenza is a book in two volumes that includes the transcription, translation, and exegesis of an anonymous seventeenth-century Italian manuscript on the planting of three flower gardens.
Yesterday a spokesman for the bus company in Piacenza, Italy, said: "It was only when the bus got to the end of the line that the driver realised she had died.
Milan midfielder Cristian Brocchi scored his first two goals of the campaign but it was not enough as Dario Hubner (two), Enzo Maresca and Marco Marchionni saw Piacenza say farewell to Serie A in style.
 
 
 
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