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When the Earl Of Bedford developed the first privately-ventured public square built in London, Covent Garden , his architect Inigo Jones surrounded it with Arcade s, in the Italian fashion. Aristocratic talk about the ''piazza'' was connected in Londoners' minds, not with the square as a whole but with the arcades, which were called the "piazzas". In Britain ''piazza'' now generally refers to a paved open pedestrian space, without grass or planting, often in front of a significant building or shops. In the United States, in the early 19th century, a ''piazza'' by further extension became a fanciful name for a Colonnade d Porch . Piazza is also a very common last name throughout Italians and Italian-Americans. The name grew out of the region surrounding Venice, and large populations of Piazza reside in Calabria, Sicily, and Venice. Famous Americans known by the name Piazza include San Diego Padre Catcher Mike Piazza . SEE ALSO |
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