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Piacenza

Piacenza

Piacenza is a city and comune in the region of Northern Italy, and the capital of the . As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with more than 102,000 inhabitants.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Piacenza Cathedral and Palazzo Farnese.

Church
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, fully the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta e Santa Giustina, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Piacenza, Italy. The current structure was built between 1122 and 1233 and is one of the most valuable examples of a Romanesque cathedral in northern Italy.

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is a palace in Piacenza, northern Italy.

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is a Gothic style palace located facing Piazza del Cavalli in the historic center of Piacenza, northern which now serves as the seat of municipal administration.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gerbido and Mezzana Casati.

Village
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is a village.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Piacenza

Latitude
45.0535° or 45° 3′ 13″ north
Longitude
9.6947° or 9° 41′ 41″ east
Population
102,000
Elevation
61 metres (200 feet)
IATA airport code
QPZ
United Nations Location Code
IT PCZ
Open location code
8FQF3M3V+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1944059487
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3171058
Wiki­data ID
Q13329
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Piacenza” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Piacenza”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Πλακεντία”
  • Arabic: “بياتشنزا”
  • Arabic: “بيتشنزا”
  • Arabic: “بيشنزة”
  • Arabic: “بِيَشِنزة”
  • Aragonese: “Piacenza”
  • Armenian: “Պյաչենցա”
  • Asturian: “Piacenza”
  • Azerbaijani: “Piaçensa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pyaçentsa”
  • Basque: “Piacenza”
  • Belarusian: “П’ячэнца”
  • Bengali: “পিয়াকেজান”
  • Bengali: “পিয়াচেঞ্জা”
  • Breton: “Piacenza”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиаченца”
  • Catalan: “Piacenza”
  • Cebuano: “Piacenza”
  • Chechen: “Пьяченца”
  • Chinese: “Piacenza”
  • Chinese: “皮亚琴察”
  • Chinese: “皮亞琴察”
  • Croatian: “Piacenza”
  • Czech: “Piacenza”
  • Danish: “Piacenza”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Piacenza”
  • Dutch: “Piacenza”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بياتشنزا”
  • Esperanto: “Piaĉenco”
  • Esperanto: “Piacenza”
  • Estonian: “Piacenza”
  • Faroese: “Piacenza”
  • Finnish: “Piacenza”
  • French: “Plaisance”
  • Galician: “Piacenza”
  • Georgian: “პიაჩენცა”
  • German: “Piacenza”
  • Greek: “Πιατσέντζα”
  • Greek: “Πιατσέντσα”
  • Gujarati: “પિયાકેન્ઝા”
  • Gujarati: “પિયાસેન્ઝા”
  • Hebrew: “פיאצ’נצה”
  • Hindi: “पियासेंज़ा”
  • Hindi: “प्याकेंज़ा”
  • Hungarian: “Piacenza”
  • Icelandic: “Piacenza”
  • Indonesian: “Piacenza”
  • Interlingua: “Piacenza”
  • Irish: “Piacenza”
  • Italian: “Piacenza”
  • Japanese: “ピアチェンツァ”
  • Kannada: “ಪಿಯಾಸೆಂಜ”
  • Kazakh: “Пьяченца”
  • Kikuyu: “Piacenza”
  • Korean: “피아첸차”
  • Kurdish: “Piacenza”
  • Ladin: “Piacenza”
  • Latin: “Placentia”
  • Latvian: “Pjačenca”
  • Ligurian: “Piaçensa”
  • Lithuanian: “Pjačenca”
  • Lombard: “Piasensa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Piacenza”
  • Macedonian: “Пјаченца”
  • Malay: “Piacenza”
  • Maltese: “Piacenza”
  • Marathi: “पीयांचेझा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Piacenza”
  • Ndonga: “Piacenza”
  • Neapolitan: “Piacenza”
  • Nepali: “पिआसेन्हा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Piacenza”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piacenza”
  • Norwegian: “Piacenza”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Plasença”
  • Ossetian: “Пьяченцæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਿਆਚੇਂਜ਼ਾ”
  • Persian: “پیاچنتسا”
  • Persian: “پیاچنزا”
  • Piemontese: “Piasensa”
  • Polish: “Piacenza”
  • Portuguese: “Piacenza”
  • Portuguese: “Placência”
  • Quechua: “Piacenza”
  • Romagnol: “Piasëinsa”
  • Romanian: “Piacenza”
  • Russian: “Пьяченца”
  • Sango: “Piacenza”
  • Sanskrit: “पियाचेंज़ा”
  • Sanskrit: “पियासेञ्जा”
  • Sardinian: “Praghèntzia”
  • Scots: “Piacenza”
  • Serbian: “Пјаченца”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Piacenza”
  • Sicilian: “Piacenza”
  • Silesian: “Piacenza”
  • Sinhala: “පිඅසේන්සා”
  • Sinhala: “පියසෙන්සා”
  • Slovak: “Piacenza”
  • Slovenian: “Piacenza”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پیاچنزا”
  • Spanish: “Piacenza”
  • Spanish: “Plasencia”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Piacenza”
  • Swahili: “Piacenza”
  • Swedish: “Piacenza”
  • Tagalog: “Plasencia”
  • Tamil: “பிசாசென்சர்”
  • Tamil: “பியாசென்சா”
  • Tatar: “Пьяченца”
  • Telugu: “పియాసెంజా”
  • Thai: “ปีอาเชนซา”
  • Thai: “เปียเชนซา”
  • Tumbuka: “Piacenza”
  • Turkish: “Piacenza”
  • Twi: “Piacenza”
  • Ukrainian: “П’яченца”
  • Urdu: “پیاچنزا”
  • Uzbek: “Piacenza”
  • Venetian: “Piacensa”
  • Vietnamese: “Piacenza”
  • Volapük: “Piacenza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Piacenza”
  • Welsh: “Piacenza”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیاچینزا”
  • Wu Chinese: “皮亚琴察”
  • Yue Chinese: “皮亞琴察”
  • “Piacenze”
  • “Piasëinsa”
  • “Piaṡëinsa”

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