Italy: a handbook for travellersFirst Part (Nothern Italy) . the Piazza de1 Cavalli. — Railway Restaurant,D. 4 fr. Cab with one horse 1fz fr., with two horses 75c; at night 75c. or1 fr. 10 c.; each box 25 c. Photographs. Sidoli, Via Diritla. Piacenza, the capital of a province, with 35,000 inhab., the see of a bishop and the headquarters of the 4th Italian army corps, lies ^3 M. from the S. bank of the Po, which is crossed by a bridge-of- boats and a railway-bridge. The town possesses several interesting churches (closed 12-3). Piacenza was founded by tbe Romans, 219, as Golonia Placentia
Italy: a handbook for travellersFirst Part (Nothern Italy) . the Piazza de1 Cavalli. — Railway Restaurant,D. 4 fr. Cab with one horse 1fz fr., with two horses 75c; at night 75c. or1 fr. 10 c.; each box 25 c. Photographs. Sidoli, Via Diritla. Piacenza, the capital of a province, with 35,000 inhab., the see of a bishop and the headquarters of the 4th Italian army corps, lies ^3 M. from the S. bank of the Po, which is crossed by a bridge-of- boats and a railway-bridge. The town possesses several interesting churches (closed 12-3). Piacenza was founded by tbe Romans, 219, as Golonia Placentia,as the same time with Cremona. In the middle ages it held a high rankin the league of the Lombard towns, and was afterwards frequently thesubject of fierce party-struggles between the Scotti, Torriani, and 1483 it was plundered by Francesco Sforza, a blow from which it neverentirely recovered. In 1514 it finally came into the possession of theFarnese family and was united to Parma. In the Piazza de Cavalli (PI. D, 3) is situated the *Palazzo. to Bologna. P1ACENZA. 45. Route. 317 Municipale (PI. 12), erected at the end of the 13th century, and de-scribed by Burckhardt as one of the earliest instances of a worthyand monumental embodiment in stone and lime of the growingspirit of municipal independence. On the groundfloor there isa spacious arcade with five pointed arches; in the upper floor aresix rich round-arch windows, above which rise handsome front of it stand the affected equestrian Statues of the DukesAlessandro Farnese (d. 1592; p. 322) and Ranuccio Famese (1592-1622), by Francesco Mocchi, a pupil of Giov. da Bologna. 8. Francesco (PL 4), a brick edifice in the Piazza, with Gothicinterior, was erected in 1278. In front of it a statue of Romagnosi(d. 1835), professor of constitutional law at Parma, and editor ofthe penal code for the Napoleonic kingdom of Italy, was unveiledin 1867. A little to the lies the Palazzo della Delegazione (PI. 13
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