Piacenza

[ pyah-chen-tsah ]

noun

1. a city in N Italy, on the Po River.

Piacenza

/ pjaˈtʃɛntsa /

noun

1. a town in N Italy, in Emilia-Romagna on the River Po. Pop: 95 594 (2001) Latin namePlacentiapləˈsɛntʃɪə

Example Sentences

The change took time but has been driven by the need to save water in an increasingly dry country, said Professor Marco Trevisan, Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the Catholic University of Piacenza, and has been helped by a flowering of agri-tech start-ups.

From Reuters

He painted the latter around 1513 for the church of San Sisto in Piacenza, Italy.

From Scientific American

PIACENZA, Italy — On one side of a glass wall, three toddlers in a nursery school flattened play dough with plastic rolling pins.

From New York Times

Piacenza’s Elderly and Children Together, an experimental project in the country’s most renowned region for childhood education and elder care, seeks to connect the vulnerable at both extremes of life.

From New York Times

The center in Piacenza has sought to invigorate them with its precious resource of children.

From New York Times