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Historical and architectural Piacenza сommune
Total places: 13
Monument to Garibaldi, Piacenza
Via Giulio Alberoni, 29100 Piacenza, Piacenza Provincia, Emilia-Romagna Regione, Italia
Monument to Garibaldi (Monumento a Giuseppe Garibaldi) with its gloomy and stern look welcomes every tourist who arrives in the town of Piacenza. This statue is the first thing people see while coming from the city station. The first among equals, as the famous revolutionary was during his ...
Cavalli del Mochi, Piacenza
Piazza Cavalli, 29121 Piacenza, Piacenza Provincia, Emilia-Romagna Regione, Italia
Cavalli del Mochi is represented by two paired equestrian statues in the central square of Piacenza. They are an excellent example of Baroque sculpture. And these statues gave the name of the square on which they were installed. They are dedicated to very famous and influential rulers of the 16th ...
Natural History Museum, Piacenza
Via Scalabrini 107, 29121 Piacenza, Piacenza Provincia, Emilia-Romagna Regione, Italia
Natural History Museum in Piacenza (Museo di Storia Naturale) is the main city establishment of its kind. It is based on the collections of the Commercial Technical Institute and is presented in a modern interactive form. Here you can get acquainted not only with the exhibits typical for such ...
Monument to The Great Adventure, Piacenza
Via del Tempio, 29121 Piacenza, Piacenza Provincia, Emilia-Romagna Regione, Italia
Monument to The Great Adventure (Monumento La Grande Avventura) in the city of Piacenza is very simple. But, nevertheless, it symbolizes a significant event in the history of the commune. In 1982, a small town celebrated a great date – 2100 years from the day of its foundation. It was decided to ...
Dolmen, Piacenza
Stradone Farnese, 29121 Piacenza, Piacenza Provincia, Emilia-Romagna Regione, Italia
Dolmen in the city of Piacenza is much younger than all its brethren scattered around the world. In addition, it radically differs from them in its purpose, although it looks alike in a form. If most of the dolmens are cultic and funeral megalithic structures, then in Piacenza, it has a different ...
Capitoline Wolf Monument, Piacenza
Piazzale Roma, 29122 Piacenza, Piacenza Provincia, Emilia-Romagna Regione, Italia
Capitoline Wolf Monument in Piacenza (Monumento alla Lupa) is a copy of the famous Capitoline Wolf. The simple and familiar for every Italian monument emphasizes the ancient connection between Rome and Piacenza. As early as 1848, the deputies of Piacenza held a referendum, according to which they ...
Monument to Bridge Builders, Piacenza
Via Cardinale Maculani, 29121 Piacenza, Piacenza Provincia, Emilia-Romagna Regione, Italia
Monument to Bridge Builders (Monumento ai Pontieri) in Piacenza exalts the heroism of the soldiers of the engineering regiment during the First World War. In the course of the First World War, the employees of the engineering divisions struck everybody with their heroism. They really saved lives, ...
Bastione Borghetto, Piacenza
Piazzale Porta Borghetto, 29121 Piacenza, Piacenza Provincia, Emilia-Romagna Regione, Italia
Bastione Borghetto (Bastione di Porta Borghetto) in Piacenza is part of the preserved city fortifications of the Renaissance. Only 2 cities in the region have such fortificayions – Piacenza and Ferrara. The gate of Borghetto is part of the bastion of the same name, designed to deter enemy ...
Farnesiane Walls, Piacenza
Via Alessio Tramello, 29100 Piacenza, Piacenza Provincia, Emilia-Romagna Regione, Italia
Farnesiane Walls (Mura Farnesiane) in Piacenza are part of the city's fortifications of the Renaissance. The surviving fortifications have a considerable length, covering a part of the city with a semicircle. This makes Piacenza one of the few Italian cities surrounded by a wall in the present ...
Statue of Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Piacenza
Piazza dei Cavalli, 29121 Piacenza, Piacenza Provincia, Emilia-Romagna Regione, Italia
Statue of Gian Domenico Romagnosi in Piacenza is dedicated to one of the heroes of the Resistance movement in Italy. And, as usual, it was installed on one of the central squares of the city. Domenico Romagnosi was a philosopher and a lawyer in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He taught law ...
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