Example sentences for: palazzo

How can you use “palazzo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The painterly impact of the “burnt sienna” glows from the arcaded Gothic Palazzo Pubblico opposite, with its splendid 102-m- (335-ft-) high Torre del Mangia (climb to its first tier at 88 m [288 ft] for a magnificent view of the city and countryside beyond).

  • You’ll find Vicenza’s greatest opus (his country villas were another story) where the Corso widens out into the Piazza Matteotti to give him more freedom for the wonderfully airy Palazzo Chiericati.

  • In gentle contrast to the austere Italian Gothic exterior of the Palazzo Vecchio by Arnolfo di Cambio (architect of the Duomo), Vasari added ornate stucco and frescoes to the first inner courtyard for a Medici wedding in the 1560s (the palazzo served briefly as a Medici residence until they moved across the river to the Palazzo Pitti).

  • On the west flank of the handsome Piazza Maggiore, the massive medieval Palazzo Comunale with its Renaissance porch is a striking expression of Bologna’s civic power.

  • The solemnly monumental hemicycle of the Piazza del Plebiscito was laid out by Napoleon’s marshal Joachim Murat, when as King of Naples, he occupied the Spaniards’ Palazzo Reale on the east side of the piazza.


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