Category: Piacenza
Piacenza: Santa Maria di Campagna
Piacenza: San Sisto
Piacenza: San Francesco
Piacenza: Palazzo Gotico and Piazza dei Cavalli
The Piazza dei Cavalli is the large square in Piacenza’s city centre. Under normal circumstances it probably attracts sizeable crowds, but when we were there in August of 2020 the square was almost deserted. This likely had everything to do with the COVID-19 pandemic, but fortunately it was still possible…
Piacenza: San Giovanni in Canale
Piacenza: Sant’Antonino
Saint Antoninus is considered the patron saint of Piacenza, together with Saint Justina of Antioch. According to a not necessarily reliable tradition he was a soldier who was martyred in about 303 during the persecutions of Christians orchestrated by the emperor Diocletianus. His martyrdom was said to have taken place…