What is a piazza i know that they are in Italy but what exactly are they?

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tolinrome

In English piazza means the town square. Every town has one and larger cities have more than one. It's usually the center of town, it's usually small and it's a central location to meet people and there may be a water fountain and a cafe and a bakery, ice cream shop, etc.
Usually when we meet friends and such we'll say "let's meet in the piazza".

It's also where people go to talk and play cards etc.

One night while I was in Sicily, someone took their TV and brang it into the piazza and many people from the town came to watch the soccer game.
It's a great place to socialize.

Victoria

A piazza is an open square surrounded by buildings. We would call it a public square. Most piazzas have a cafe and a church. It's just where people congregate to relax and they are normally named after old famous italians who are known for something.

christina

A piazza is like a town square. A central place of a town.

.Laura

In small towns (but even in big cities) is the "centre" of the social life during the day time for sure...is the symbol of the town in itself

Vincent A

A Piazza is what you get when you're blind drunk and order a Pizza!

Cycwynner

A “piazza” is not just a “square”, it’s an Institution, especially in small and medium sized towns. As T.R. rightly mentioned, it’s the equivalent of an Englishman saying he’ll “go to the pub” to meet friends. The entire town’s life rotates around the “Piazza”. “Andare in Piazza”, for someone living in the outskirts is like “going to town”. People can spend an entire day “in Piazza”, wheeling and dealing, talking to friends, meeting acquaintances, striking deals. In a sociological treatise I wrote, I picked up a seventeenth century description of a German philosopher on “Italian Piazzas” and the quaint Venetian ruling bodies (the Doge and his co-rulers) habit of “strolling through Piazza San Marco”, where people could stop him, present petitions and beg advice and protection. The essentials of a Piazza are the local church, or mighty Cathedral, a rich assortment of shops and caffès, a restaurant or trattoria, where you can have that great tradition, “il caffè”, a cappuccino or a glass (in Venice a “cup” or ombretta) of the local wine, or the other great tradition “il barbiere” or parucchiere (barber’s shop or hairdresser), where in half an hour of newspaper reading, you can glean all the town’s latest news. Italians, in brief “live” and love their piazzas more than their homes. They are the hub and navel of their entire life, which accounts for the severe social problems created by new settlements, where old “piazza people” are uprooted, isolated and rendered unhappy, away from their natural neighbourly habitat. “Piazza Italia”, incidentally, is an ongoing project to recreate a commercial venture abroad.

mercedes♥

yeah everyone else pretty much said it, its basically the town square where all the businesses and cafes and rrestaurants are.

SueP

Piazza is the Italian word for a square. There are many in most cities, and they are often in front of churches...an open space for churchgoers to socialize before and after mass, and for gathering at any time.

rick m

Piazza= square

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In Italy a piazza is a square, a big and large square!

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