Light in the Piazza (film) Light in the Piazza (film) Light in the Piazza is a 1962 American romantic drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, and Barry Sullivan. Based on the 1960 novel "The Light in the Piazza" by Elizabeth Spencer, the film is about a beautiful but mentally disabled young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother and the Italian man they meet during one leg of their trip. Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, "Light in the Piazza" is notable for its extensive location shooting in 1960s Florence and Rome by the award-winning cinematographer
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