0 especially in Italy, an open area with a hard surface in a town, especially where there is no traffic --
Beautiful houses, small piazzas, narrow alleys and small plantations of grapevines are characteristic features of the village.
Westminster city council proposed to change that quaint little street, which has been there for centuries, into a piazza—not a pizza.
It aims to convince street drinkers that the areas around the railway station and the piazza are not the places to do their drinking as it deters shoppers.
Paul's, to provide in the front of it a piazza or precinct of a certain size; and that piazza must conform to three rules.
And the third rule is that the piazza must be level so that the eye of the onlooker is on the same level as on the steps of the church.
A grand piazza is to be surrounded by shops, flats and restaurants.
Aalto's piazza has haunted all later plans of the area; only one of the awarded entries in the 1997 competition proposed a building on the site.
Venice was filled with beautiful churches, palazzos, piazzas, everywhere.
