Province of Piacenza

The **Province of Piacenza** () is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its largest town and capital is the city of Piacenza.

## Geography

The province of Piacenza has an area of . It is the most western of the nine provinces in the region of Emilia-Romagna in northwestern Italy. It is divided in two zones from north to south; the northern part is largely flat (the _Pianura Padana_ or valley of the Po river) but the southern two thirds are hilly and gets up the Apennines mountains.

The province is bordered to the north by the region of Lombardy (Cremona, Lodi and Pavia provinces), to the east by the Parma province, to the south by the region of Liguria (Metropolitan City of Genoa) and to the west by the region of Piedmont (Alessandria province).

The main river in the province is the Po river.

The main lakes in the province are artificial lakes; two of them are:

- Mignano (_Lago di Mignano_), at an altitude of . It is the largest lake of the province with an area of .
- Trebecco (_Lago di Trebecco_), at an altitude of  with an area of .

The highest mountain in the province is Monte Bue (); it is  high.

## Population

There are 286,758 persons living in the province (January 2017), for a population density of  inhabitants/km². The communes with more inhabitants are Piacenza (102,355 inhabitants) and Fiorenzuola d'Arda (15,306 inhabitants). The commune with fewest people living in it is Zerba, with 78 inhabitants.

## Administration

The following shows the 45 _comuni_ with the population, and the area and altitude.

|No.|_Comune_|Population <small>(2016)</small> !! Area <small>(km²)</small> !! Density !! Altitude||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Agazzano||36.15||187|
|2|Alseno||55.27||81|
|3|Besenzone||23.95||48|
|4|Bettola||122.37||329|
|5|Bobbio||106.53||272|
|6|Borgonovo Val Tidone||51.22||114|
|7|Cadeo||38.48||65|
|8|Calendasco||36.94||55|
|9|Caminata||3.17||364|
|10|Caorso||40.98||42|
|11|Carpaneto Piacentino||63.08||114|
|12|Castel San Giovanni||44.04||74|
|13|Castell'Arquato||52.75||224|
|14|Castelvetro Piacentino||35.06||39|
|15|Cerignale||30.82||725|
|16|Coli||71.69||638|
|17|Corte Brugnatella||46.31||350|
|18|Cortemaggiore||36.47||52|
|19|Farini||112.36||424|
|20|Ferriere||178.50||626|
|21|Fiorenzuola d'Arda||59.77||80|
|22|Gazzola||44.48||139|
|23|Gossolengo||31.10||86|
|24|Gragnano Trebbiense||34.61||82|
|25|Gropparello||56.33||355|
|26|Lugagnano Val d'Arda||54.40||229|
|27|Monticelli d'Ongina||46.33||40|
|28|Morfasso||83.93||631|
|29|Nibbiano||43.92||284|
|30|Ottone||98.96||510|
|31|Pecorara||53.77||481|
|32|Piacenza||118.24||61|
|33|Pianello Val Tidone||36.29||192|
|34|Piozzano||43.61||222|
|35|Podenzano||44.34||118|
|36|Ponte dell'Olio||43.92||216|
|37|Pontenure||33.85||65|
|38|Rivergaro||43.83||140|
|39|Rottofreno||35.17||65|
|40|San Giorgio Piacentino||49.19||103|
|41|San Pietro in Cerro||27.35||44|
|42|Sarmato||27.26||74|
|43|Travo||81.01||176|
|44|Vernasca||72.57||420|
|45|Vigolzone||42.04||165|
|46|Villanova sull'Arda||36.57||42|
|47|Zerba||24.13||906|
|48|Ziano Piacentino||32.78||220|

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Province of Piacenza
- **native name lang**: it
- **settlement type**: Provinces of Italy, Province
- **image skyline**: Farnese piacenza.jpg
- **image alt**: Palazzo Farnese
- **image caption**: Palazzo Farnese, Piacenza
- **image flag**: Flag of the province of Piacenza.svg
- **image shield**: Provincia di Piacenza-Stemma.svg
- **shield size**: 75px
- **image map**: Piacenza in Italy.svg
- **map alt**: Map with the province of Piacenza in Italy
- **map caption**: Map with the province of Piacenza, in red, in Italy
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: Regions of Italy, Region
- **subdivision name1**: Emilia-Romagna
- **established title**: Province
- **established date**: 1859
- **seat type**: Capital city, Capital
- **seat**: Piacenza
- **parts type**: _Comune, Comuni_
- **parts style**: para
- **p1**: 48
- **leader title**: President
- **leader name**: Francesco Rolleri
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area total km2**: 2585.86
- **population total**: 286758
- **population as of**: January 2017
- **population density km2**: auto
- **timezone1**: Central European Time, CET
- **utc offset1**: +1
- **timezone1 dst**: Central European Summer Time, CEST
- **utc offset1 dst**: +2
- **postal code type**: Postal code
- **postal code**: 29010, 29020, 29100
- **area code type**: Telephone prefix
- **area code**: 0523
- **iso code**: IT-PC
- **registration plate**: Italian car number plates, PC
- **blank name sec1**: Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, ISTAT
- **blank info sec1**: 033
- **website**: [http://www.provincia.piacenza.it Official website]