The heads of the slain were placed upon pikes in the Piazza of the Broletto.

On February 29, the Marlins were recognized on Sports Illustrated's magazine for the 5th time ( 11 / 3 / 1997, Edgar Renteria who had a walk-off hit in Game 7 of the World Series ; 5 / 25 / 1998, Mike Piazza after his trade from the Dodgers ; 11 / 3 / 2003 ; Josh Beckett, after winning World Series MVP and 3 / 12 / 07 Dontrelle Willis, chronicling global warming with Willis in a flooded Sun Life Stadium.

It was built in the style of an army camp with the main streets, the cardo and the decumanus, intersecting at the present Piazza della Repubblica.

Florence replaced Turin as Italy's capital in 1865 and, in an effort to modernise the city, the old market in the Piazza del Mercato Vecchio and many medieval houses were pulled down and replaced by a more formal street plan with newer houses.

Minerva was worshipped on the Capitoline Hill as one of the Capitoline Triad along with Jupiter and Juno, at the Temple of Minerva Medica, and at the " Delubrum Minervae " a temple founded around 50 BC by Pompey on the site now occupied by the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva facing the present-day Piazza della Minerva.

Small bronze figures for collector's cabinets, often mythological subjects with nudes, were a popular Renaissance form at which Giambologna, originally Flemish but based in Florence, excelled in the later part of the century, also creating life-size sculptures, of which two joined the collection in the Piazza della Signoria.

Piazza San Marco in Venice, with St Mark's Campanile and Basilica in the background

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In the Middle Ages, the Torre delle Milizie and the convent of St. Peter and Domenic were built, and above Constantine's building was erected the Palazzo Rospigliosi ; the two famous colossal marble statues of the " Horse Tamers ", generally identified as the Dioscuri with horses, which now are in the Piazza Quirinale, were originally in this Palazzo.

A large-scale redevelopment plan beginning with a new sewerage system and followed by the development of the two main squares, Piazza Mercantile and Piazza Ferrarese has seen the opening of many pubs and other venues.

Other projects include the new district near the Santa Gilla pond ( Piazza Santa Gilla ), a luxurious beauty-center on the Poetto beach, where now is the old abandoned " Marino " hospital, the new university campus, designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, and the new " Parco della musica ", a great park with an amphitheatre and fountains, channels and water-games, between T-hotel and the Civic Theatre ; the latter will be finished by the end of the year, while the other works will be finished by 2010 – 2011.

* In the E. M. Forster novel A Room with a View, Lucy Honeychurch is carried to " some steps in the Uffizi Arcade " by George Emerson, when she faints after witnessing a murder in the Piazza della Signoria.

Part of the medieval city walls is still visible in Piazza Fiera, along with a circular tower.

* Piazza Duomo, on the side of the Cathedral, with frescoed Renaissance buildings and the Late Baroque Fountain of Neptune ( Fontana di Nettuno ) built in 1767-1768.

In 1987 the tower was declared as part of the Piazza del Duomo UNESCO World Heritage Site along with the neighbouring cathedral, baptistery and cemetery.

* In the Piazza dei Signori is the beautiful loggia called the Gran Guardia, ( 1493 – 1526 ), and close by is the Palazzo del Capitaniato, the residence of the Venetian governors, with its great door, the work of Giovanni Maria Falconetto, the Veronese architect-sculptor who introduced Renaissance architecture to Padua and who completed the door in 1532.

* The church of Santa Maria della Piazza, with an elaborate arcaded façade ( 1210 ).

The city's role as main Austrian trading port and shipbuilding centre was later emphasized with the foundation of the merchant shipping line Austrian Lloyd in 1836, whose headquarters stood at the corner of the Piazza Grande and Sanità.

As grand master of Propaganda Due, Gelli allegedly assumed a major role in Gladio's " strategy of tension " in Italy, starting with the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing.

Piazza Grande, with the Cathedral and the Communal Palace.

It has a nave and two aisles, with frescoes by Callisto Piazza.

It includes the Galliani Polyptych by Alberto Piazza ( 1520 ), and has, on the façade, a rose window decorated with polychrome majolica.

Their arrangement, on a north-south axis aligned with the Obelisk of Luxor and the Rue Royale, and the form of the fountains themselves, were influenced by the fountains of Rome, particularly Piazza Navona and the Piazza San Pietro, both of which had obelisks aligned with fountains.

* Piazza Bra, a piazza in Verona

The design envisaged a straight axis with the rounded Foscari Arch, with alternate bands of Istrian stone and red Verona marble, linking the staircase to the Porta della Carta, and thus producing one single monumental approach from the Piazza into the heart of he building.

A marble portrait statue of Girolamo Fracastoro by the Carrarese sculptor Danese Cattaneo ( completed 1559 ) stands on a beautiful arch in the central Piazza dei Signori of Verona, near the monument to Dante Alighieri.

The Verona Arena ( Arena di Verona ) is a Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra in Verona, Italy, which is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there.

Piazza delle Erbe is a square in Verona, northern Italy.

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Another of his most important works was the marble and bronze Fountain of Neptune ( Fontana del Nettuno ) for the Piazza della Signoria.

In front lies the sloping Piazza del Quirinale where the pair of gigantic Roman marble " Horse Tamers " representing Castor and Pollux, found in the Baths of Constantine, were re-erected in 1588.

His sculptures have never inspired the admiration given those of Michelangelo, specially the colossal ( 5. 05 m ) marble group of Hercules and Cacus ( completed in 1534 ) in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, and Adam and Eve in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, which both stand within sight of some of Michelangelo's masterworks.

* The circular domed Baptistry of St. John clad in white marble in the Piazza del Duomo, Pisa, built in stages from 1150 and combining Romanesque with Gothic.

The marble loggia, known as Cappella di Piazza, was added in 1352 as a vow for the Holy Virgin by the Sienese survivors from the Black Death.

The white marble Fonte Gaia was originally designed and built by Jacopo della Quercia, whose bas-reliefs from the basin's sides are conserved in the Ospedale di St. Maria della Scala in Piazza Duomo.

In the central Piazza della Libertà is the Loggia dei Mercanti with two-tier arcades dating from the Renaissance.

Mola city centre is its main piazza, Piazza XX Settembre near the port and also boasts a church ( Chiesa Matrice, i. e. Mother Church ) dating back to the 13th century.

He was also author of the plans for the Loggia dei Priori and the Colonnade that faces out onto the Piazza dei Priori together with the 13th ‑ century Palazzo del Podestà and the 14th ‑ century fountain.

View of Piazza del Duomo, Milan in the early 20th century.

* Historical centre of the town, built in grey granite blocks ( mainly 18th century ); particularly Corso Matteotti, via Roma ( Carrera Longa, Lu Runzatu, Lu Pultali ), Piazza d ' Italia ( Piazza di l ' Ara ), Parco delle Rimembranze, Fonte Nuova ( Funtana Noa ) and Parco di San Lorenzo, via Mannu ( ex via dei Nobili or dei Cavalieri );

* Piazza d ' Italia ( 19th century ) is the main square in Sassari.

Taranto features several Greek temple ruins-some stretching as far back as the 6th century BC-such as the remains of a Doric Temple still visible on Piazza Castello.

Towards the end of the 16th century, the municipal square ( now Piazza Cavour ), which had been closed off on a site where the Poletti Theatre was subsequently built, was redesigned.

In the 16th century, the ' grand square ' ( now the Piazza Tre Martiri in honor of three civilians hanged by the retreating Nazis at the end of World War II ), which was where markets and tournaments were held, underwent various changes.

Piazza del Duomo, 19th century

The Piazza Grande is the most noteworthy medieval square in the city, opening behind the 13th century Romanesque apse of Santa Maria della Pieve.

Piazza Ducale was actually planned to form a noble forecourt to his castle, unified by the arcades that completely surround the square, an amenity of the new North Italian towns built in the 13th century.

In the 17th century one end of the Piazza Ducale was enclosed by the concave Baroque façade of the Cathedral, cleverly adjusted to bring the ancient duomo into a line perpendicular to the axis of the piazza and centered on it.

Piazza della Libertà, 16th century Loggia di San Giovanni and the Torre dell ’ Orologio.

* Venice's Biblioteca Marciana is completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi on the Piazza San Marco after more than a century of construction following a plan by the late Jacopo Sansovino.

* The church of St. Francis, in Piazza Cavalli, is a 12th century Romanesque / Gothic edifice which, thanks to its central position, assumed the role of civic Sanctuary in the Middle Ages.

Piazza Grande in the 19th century: at left, the Palazzo del Governatore, at right the Dogana

During the 16th century, two large granite basins from the Baths of Caracalla were adapted as fountains in the Piazza Farnese, the " urban " face of the palace.

From the early 19th century to today, Canosa has assumed more precise features two main squares, connected by a course that follows the ancient Via Traiana ( Corso San Sabino ) establish the center, the Piazza Vittorio Veneto.

The setting of the Piazza Barberini has changed significantly since the seventeenth century.

Defined as a public space in the last years of 15th century, when the city market was transferred to it from the Campidoglio, the Piazza Navona was transformed into a highly significant example of Baroque Roman architecture and art during the pontificate of Innocent X, who reigned from 1644-1655, and whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili, faced onto the piazza.

This tradition was begun after the monks donated land for the extension of the Piazza San Marco in the 12th century.

File: Piazza del Duomo1. jpg | Procession at the Cathedral and the Baptistry ( right ) during the 18th century