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Palace Farnese

is a palace in Piacenza, northern Italy.This large partly constructed palace is located on the banks of the River Po in the city of Piacenza in Northern Italy. In 1556, Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Castro and of Parma, also became Duke of Piacenza and initially set up his court there. Ottavio decided on a residence in the city possibly because he could feel more secure due to the presence of a Spanish garrison.The palace was commissioned by Ottavio's wife, Margaret of Austria, daughter of Emperor Charles V. The new edifice was erected over a former fortress built by the Visconti in 1352, part of which can still be seen.In the Archaeological Museum is the famous 'Piacenza Liver', an Etruscan bronze of a liver with Etruscan writing that was possibly used for haruspicy or divination by the reading of animals entrails.The Gallery or Pinacoteca is housed in the so-called "Duchess Apartments", on the first floor.

Piacenza Cathedral

is a Roman Catholic church in Piacenza, Italy. It was built between 1122 and 1233 and is one of the most valuable examples of a Romanesque cathedral in northern Italy. It is the seat of the diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio.The Duomo has a total external length of 85 m, and a façade height of 32 m, measures which make it the largest Romanesque church in Emilia-Romagna. The façade, in Veronese pink marble and gilded stone, is horizontally divided by a gallery that dominates the three portals, decorated with capitals and Romanesque statues.The interior has a nave and two aisles, divided by twenty-five massive pillars. Its noteworthy frescoes were made in the 14th-16th centuries by Camillo Procaccini and Ludovico Carracci, while the frescos inside the dome are by Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, "il Morazzone", and Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, best known as "Guercino". The presbytery has a wooden sculpture from 1479, wooden choirstalls by Giangiacomo da Genova (1471) and 15th century statues of the Lombard school.Few remains can be traced of the paleochristian basilica, as Piacenza was razed by Totila in 546, during the Gothic War.

White Dinner

During the summer solstice, on 21 June 2006, about 250 people attended the first "White Dinner" d Italy.Participants ritrovatisi around the basilica of St. Anthony and all dressed in white, carrying a bouquet of flowers and a candle each, the same color.The event is inspired by the "diner blanc" which is held every year on the same day, in Paris, near the cathedral of Notre Dame.Since then, takes place every year.

Museum of Natural History

has changed location and Palazzo Scotti was transferred to the Urban Center (area created by the redevelopment of the former city slaughterhouse, which also houses a branch of the Polytechnic of Milan ).It is divided into sections Botany, Zoology and Earth Sciences. Important are the herbarium and the nineteenth-century ornithological collection.

Gallery of Modern Art Ricci Oddi

is a gallery of Piacenza dedicated to paintings of modern art.The gallery was founded by Giuseppe Ricci Oddi, Piacenza collector ( one thousand eight hundred sixty-eight - 1936 ) who returned to Piacenza in 1897, after having taken legal studies at Rome and Turin, decided to decorate the family mansion, considered too bare.The sculptor Labo Orestes, the accountant and the merchant Charles Pennarola Milan Giovanni Torelli, among others, help him find appropriate contemporary works.Collect about 100 works up to 1915 and continues even after the end of the First World War.The collection includes works by only Romanticism and later periods.In 1913 look for a stable place to donate his collection to the community.This gives a common ground on which he builds at his own expense, the building was completed in 1931 and whose inauguration was attended by Savoy.The choice of suitable land it fell to the architect Giulio Ulisse Arata , who was also the designer of the building, according to the wishes of Ricci Oddi, who wanted him like a Renaissance building, connected to the residues of the old convent.The museum now has more than four hundred works arranged according to regional criteria, plus monographic rooms.

Piacenza Jazz Fest

Since 2004 takes place in the city and province (and occasionally bets outside the province), the jazz festival, which took part in the 8 editions of the biggest international artists, among others: Brad Mehldau, Javier Girotto, Paolo Fresu Uri Caine, Franco Ambrosetti, Enrico Rava, Franco D'Andrea.

Feast of the patron

On July 4, celebrates the patron saint of the city, St. Anthony.On this occasion, meet the political authority represented by the Mayor, and the religion represented by the bishop, a Catholic, with the traditional gift of the candle.It also takes a fair consists of a huge number of stalls that occupy the Avenue of the public walks and other historic streets from dawn until late at night.

Feast of the Family

Since 2009 in the month of September in the city there is the Feast of the Family, major socio-cultural event, organized by the Catholic Jurists and the New Journal under the patronage of the Municipality of Piacenza and the Foundation of Piacenza and Vigevano.The event will include an annual conference on current issues closely around the family in its different dimensions (the sphere of education, social, economic, women's role) and saw significant action academics, the business world as well as intellectuals and members of civil society .After the good success of 2010 edition, the conference organized in 2011 has the theme "Male and female he created them", and plans to build on - legally and according to the perspectives of philosophy of law and in the light of Catholic theology - the topic of human sexuality, the relationship between sexuality and marriage as a set in contemporary legal and theological viewpoint.

July - September
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