Piacenza | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2018-12-02

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Piacenza


00:01:04 1 History
00:01:12 1.1 Ancient history
00:01:21 1.1.1 Pre-Roman era
00:01:54 1.1.2 Roman age
00:05:26 1.2 Middle Ages
00:07:54 1.3 Modern era
00:09:54 1.4 Union with Italy
00:10:57 1.5 World War II
00:12:41 2 Geography
00:12:50 2.1 Climate
00:13:13 3 Government
00:13:22 4 Main sights
00:13:38 4.1 Palaces
00:15:06 4.2 Other places of interest
00:20:35 5 Dialect
00:21:20 6 Sport
00:22:22 7 Cuisine
00:24:33 8 People
00:28:45 9 International relations
00:28:55 9.1 Twin towns — Sister cities
00:29:12 10 See also



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Piacenza (Italian pronunciation: [pjaˈtʃɛntsa] (listen); Piacentino: Piaṡëinsa [pi.aˈzəi̯sɐ]; Latin: Placentia) is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, the capital of the eponymous province. The etymology is long-standing, tracing an origin from the Latin verb placēre, "to please." In French, and occasionally in English, it is called Plaisance. The name means a "pleasant abode", or as James Boswell reported some of the etymologists of his time to have translated  it, "comely". This was a name "of good omen."Piacenza is located at a major crossroads at the intersection of Route E35/A1 between Bologna and Milan, and Route E70/A21 between Brescia and Tortona. Piacenza is also at the confluence of the Trebbia, draining the northern Apennine Mountains, and the Po,  draining to the east. Piacenza also hosts two universities, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Polytechnic University of Milan.