Piacenza

Piacenza is a metropolis and comune in the Emilia Romagna vicinity of northern Italy, the capital of the eponymous province. The etymology is long status, tracing a starting place from the Latin verb placere, to delight. In French, and sometimes in English, it's miles known as Plaisance. The name approaches a pleasant home, or as James Boswell reported some of the etymologists of his time to have translated it, comely. This changed into a call of properly omen. Piacenza is located at a prime crossroads on the intersection of Route E35 or A1 between Bologna and Milan and Route E70 or A21 between Brescia and Turin.

Piacenza is also at the confluence of the Trebbia, draining the northern Apennine Mountains, and the Po, draining to the east. Piacenza also hosts universities, University Catholic del Sacro Cuore and Polytechnic University of Milan. Before its agreement via the Romans, the place become populated via different peoples especially, maximum these days to the Roman agreement, the area on the right financial institution of the Po among the Trebbia and the Taro have been occupied by means of the Ananes or Anamari, a tribe of Cisalpine Gauls. Before then, says Polybius, These planes had been anciently inhabited by way of Etruscans before the Gauls took the entire Po Valley from them.