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 Arringo Piazza Arringo The Piazza Arringo, also known as the "piazza dell'Arengo", is the oldest monumental piazza in the city of Ascoli Piceno. Rectangular in form, numerous important monuments face the piazza including: the "palazzo Fonzi", the "palazzo dell'Arengo" from the 13th century (also known as the "palatium Aringhi"), the Bishop's residence, the Cathedral of Saint Emygdius, the baptistery of Saint John, the diocesan museum, and the palazzo Panichi. The piazza's name comes from the middle ages when Ascoli became a free comune and used this site for public meetings of the parliament, also known as "arringhi", "arenghi" or "arringhe": an