Example sentences for: venezia

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

  • Beside the Piazza Venezia, a steep staircase leads up to the austere 13th-century Santa Maria in Aracoeli, while another, more graceful and gradual, takes you up between the statues of Castor and Pollux to Michelangelo’s beautifully proportioned square of the Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill).

  • The church of the Gesù, severe and relatively discreet on its own square west of the Piazza Venezia, was a major element in the Jesuits’ Counter-Reformation campaign.

  • Via del Plebiscito, the street that connects Piazza Venezia with Largo Argentina, now almost totally surrendered to buses and taxis, was named for the `plebiscite' held in 1870, shortly after the events of the 20th of September, when the people of Rome voted to join the rest of Italy, ending the temporal power of the Church.

  • New on the scene is the vast Palazzo Doria Pamphili off the Piazza Venezia.

  • Northwest of the monument, the 15th-century Palazzo Venezia is a fine example of severe but elegant early Renaissance architecture, now containing a museum of medieval and Renaissance arms, furniture, and sculpture.


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