Monday, August 4, 2008

from Italy and the Italians in the Nineteenth Century by André Vieusseux, 1818/1819

Piacenza is finely situated, on the right or southern bank of the Po, being built on an elevated ground and in an open country, it is seen at some distance;... Piacenza is a fortified town, and it commands one of the passages over the Po.

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