page_title: Piacenza
section_title: Main sights
hierarchical_section_title: Piacenza / Main sights
caption_attribution_description: Facciata del medievale Palazzo del Comune a Piacenza (iniziato nel 1281), detto comunemente "il Gotico", nella "Piazza dei cavalli" di Piacenza, vista da Piazza Cavalli. (Fotografia di Palazzo Gotico di Alessandro Bersani)
context_page_description: Piacenza 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 Turin. 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.
context_section_description: Piacenza boasts a great number of historical palaces, often characterized by splendid gardens.
caption: Piazza Cavalli and the façade of Palazzo Comunale il Gotico.
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