{"id":22665,"date":"2020-11-30T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T10:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/arte-e-cultura\/piazzale-delle-crociate-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T16:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:37:27","slug":"piazzale-delle-crociate-2","status":"publish","type":"arte-e-cultura","link":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/piazzale-delle-crociate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Piazzale delle Crociate (Crusades Square)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piazzale delle Crociate (Crusades Square) is located in the western part of the city center. Once this square was located at the extreme edge of the town, in fact it marked the boundary of Piacenza along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/farneses-walls\/\">Farnese&#8217;s walls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The square is of a great importance for the history of Christianity. In this place in <strong>1095<\/strong>\u00a0Pope Urban II convened a council after receiving a request for help from the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus. This event led to the <strong>first crusade to the Holy Land<\/strong> to recapture Jerusalem, which was called in Clermont, France, shortly after the assembly that had been held in Piacenza.<br \/>\nEven today, therefore, the square retains in its name the memory of this significant episode. A marble plaque commemorates this important historical event.<\/p>\n<p>The square is dominated by the splendid <a href=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/santa-maria-di-campagna-basilica\/\">Basilica of Santa Maria di Campagna<\/a>, an architectural example of Bramante-inspired architecture that is among the finest in northern Italy. A splendid 14th-century painted wooden altarpiece of the Madonna and Child is venerated in the church. The basilica features remarkable frescoes by Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio d\u00e8 Sacchis, known as Pordenone.<br \/>\nThe Vittorio Emanuele Hospital and Hospice also stand on the Piazzale delle Crociate today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The square is in the western zone of the city where once, along with Farnese\u2019s walls, it marked the boundary of Piacenza. It is a square with an ancient history since from here Pope Urbano 2nd in 1095 called a council where he received the request of help from the Byzantine Emperor Alessio 1st Comneno, to which followed the first crusade started in Clermont. Now on the square there is the beautiful Santa Maria di Campagna church, an exemplary of Renaissance architecture among the most admired in northern Italy.","protected":false},"featured_media":17854,"template":"","territorio":[939],"categorie_arte_e_cultura":[923],"class_list":["post-22665","arte-e-cultura","type-arte-e-cultura","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","territorio-piacenza-en","categorie_arte_e_cultura-monuments-squares-and-palaces"],"acf":{"orario":"","tariffe":"","location":{"lat":"45.056504","lng":"9.680142","address":"Piazzale delle Crociate"},"contatti_iat":[{"contatto_iat":"telephone","valore":"IATPiacenza+39.0523.492001"},{"contatto_iat":"email","valore":"iat@comune.piacenza.it"}],"accessibilita_disabili":"","chiusura_settimanale":"","iat":30186,"localita":33156},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Piazzale delle Crociate (Crusades Square) - Visit Piacenza<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Piazzale delle Crociate has an incredible historic importance. 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