Piazza della Rotonda Piazza della Rotonda The Piazza della Rotonda is a piazza (city square) in Rome, Italy, on the south side of which is located the Pantheon. The square gets its name from the Pantheon's informal title as the church of "Santa Maria Rotonda". Although the Pantheon has stood from antiquity, the area in front of it had over the centuries become choked with a maze of sheds and small shops that had grown up around its columns. These medieval accretions were cleared by order of Pope Eugenius IV (1431–39) and the piazza was laid out and paved. It took its name
Piazza del Duomo, Milan podestà (or Benito Mussolini himself) make speeches to the population; it now houses a museum on 20th-century art. Piazza del Duomo, Milan Piazza del Duomo ("Cathedral Square") is the main "piazza" (city square) of Milan, Italy. It is named after, and dominated by, the Milan Cathedral (the "Duomo"). The piazza marks the center of the city, both in a geographic sense and because of its importance from an artistic, cultural, and social point of view. Rectangular in shape, with an overall area of 17,000 m (about 183,000 sq ft), the piazza includes some of the most important buildings of Milan