サン・マルコ広場（サン・マルコ ひろば、イタリア語：Piazza San Marco）はヴェネツィアの中心的な広場で、回廊のある建物に囲まれ、ドゥカーレ宮殿やサン・マルコ寺院などがある。ヴェネツィアの広場は方言でカンポ（campo）と呼ばれるが、サン・マルコ広場は別格であり、ピアッツァ（piazza）と呼ばれる。世界で最も美しい広場とも言われており、観光名所のほか、海からの玄関口でもある。
サン・マルコは、ヴェネツィアの守護聖人である福音記者マルコに、由来する。サン・マルコ寺院の聖堂の正面部分は柱廊に囲まれた台形になっていて、実際より奥行きがあるようにみえる。この台形広場（piazza）に、海に面したサン・マルコ小広場（Piazetta San Marco）が続いており、全体としてL字型になっている。小広場にはカナル・グランデに面して2本の円柱があり、それぞれ頂上には聖マルコを象徴する「有翼の獅子」像と、「聖テオドーロ」像がある。中世にはこの柱の間に死刑執行台を設置したため、ヴェネツィアっ子は柱の間を通り抜けないという。
Piazza Maggiore is a central square in Bologna, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The appearance in the 21st century, generally reflects the layout from the 15th century. The Northwest corner opens into Piazza del Nettuno with its Fontana del Nettuno, while the Northeast corner opens into the narrower Piazza Re Enzo, running along the flanks of the Palazzo Re Enzo that merges with the Palazzo del Podestà. Flanking the Piazza del Nettuno is the Biblioteca Salaborsa.
ヴェネツィア宮殿（イタリア語: Palazzo Venezia）は、イタリアの首都ローマ中心部にある宮殿（パラッツォ）。カンピドリオの北に位置し、ヴェネツィア広場に面している（広場の名はこの宮殿にちなむ）。
宮殿の敷地内にはサン・マルコ教会が建つ。もともとこの教会に任命された枢機卿（伝統的にヴェネツィア出身者が任命されてきた）の住居がこの館の起源である。15世紀に館の主となった枢機卿ピエトロ・バルボ（のちの教皇パウルス2世）らによって大規模な拡張・改築が行われ、ルネサンス建築初期の特徴を有する複合建築物に発展した。その後はヴェネツィア共和国、次いでオーストリアの大使館となった。ファシスト政権期にはベニート・ムッソリーニが官邸として用いたことで知られている。現在、この建物はパラッツォ・ヴェネツィア国立博物館（Museo nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia）として使われている。
Palazzo Rucellai is a palatial fifteenth-century townhouse on the Via della Vigna Nuova in Florence, Italy. The Rucellai Palace is believed by most scholars to have been designed for Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451 and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino. Its splendid facade was one of the first to proclaim the new ideas of Renaissance architecture based on the use of pilasters and entablatures in proportional relationship to each other. The Rucellai Palace demonstrates the impact of the antique revival but does so in a manner which is full of Renaissance originality.
The grid-like facade, achieved through the application of a scheme of trabeated articulation, makes a statement of rational humanist clarity.
The stone veneer of this facade is given a channeled rustication and serves as the background for the smooth-faced pilasters and entablatures which divide the facade into a series of three-story bays. The three stories of the Rucellai facade have different classical orders, as in the Colosseum, but with the Tuscan order at the base, a Renaissance original in place of the Ionic order at the second level, and a very simplified Corinthian order at the top level. Twin-lit, round-arched windows in the two upper stories are set within arches with highly pronounced voussoirs that spring from pilaster to pilaster. The facade is topped by a boldly projecting cornice.
The ground floor was for business and was flanked by benches running along the street facade. The second story was the main formal reception floor and the third story the private family and sleeping quarters. A fourth "hidden" floor under the roof was for servants; with almost no windows, it is quite dark inside.
The palace contains an off-center court , built to a design that may have been adapted from Brunelleschi's loggia at his Spedale degli Innocenti. In the triangular Piazza dei Rucellai in front of the palace and set at right angles to it is the Loggia de' Rucellai, which was used for family celebrations, weddings, and as a public meeting place. The two buildings taken together with the open space between them , form one of the most refined urban compositions of the Italian Renaissance.
Palazzo Grassi is a building in the Venetian Classical style located on the Grand Canal of Venice , between the Palazzo Moro Lin and the campo San Samuele.
The Capitolium or Capitoline Hill , between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the Seven Hills of Rome.
The hill was earlier known as Mons Saturnius, dedicated to the god Saturn. The word Capitolium first meant the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus later built here, and afterwards it was used for the whole hill , thus Mons Capitolinus . In an etiological myth, ancient sources connect the name to caput and the tale was that, when laying the foundations for the temple, the head of a man was found, some sources even saying it was the head of some Tolus or Olus. The Capitolium was regarded by the Romans as indestructible, and was adopted as a symbol of eternity.By the 16th century, Capitolinus had become Capitolino in Italian, and Capitolium Campidoglio. The Capitoline Hill contains few ancient ground-level ruins, as they are almost entirely covered up by Medieval and Renaissance palazzi that surround a piazza, a significant urban plan designed by Michelangelo.
The word Capitolium still lives in the English word capitol, and Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. is widely assumed to be named after the Capitoline Hill.
The Palazzo Doria or Palazzo Andrea e Gio. Batta Spinola is a palace located in Via Garibaldi, in the historical center of Genoa, in Northwestern Italy. It was one of the 163 Palazzi dei Rolli of Genoa, the selected private residences where the notable guests of the Republic of Genoa were hosted during State visits. On 13 luglio del 2006 it was included in the list of 42 palaces which now form the UNESCO World Heritage Site Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli.
The palace is the property of the Doria family and has a residential use. Only the exterior and limited internal areas are open to the public.
The Palazzo Corsini is a monumental palace located on Via del Parione #11, with a facade towards the Arno River, in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.
