piazza

noun3

1. •
   A public square, especially in Italian cities.

   • Incidentally, the yard in front of the Granary, now a lovely piazza, was once a canal basin that had been filled in decades before. — 2021
2. •
   (UK) A roofed gallery or arcade (for example around a public square or in front of a building).
3. •
   (dialect, old-fashioned) A veranda; a porch.