 Today called Piazza Tanucci, after the Bernardo Tanucci, an Italian statesman, who was born in Stia in 1698.Stia boasts a pair of covered arcades that run along either side of the piazza, today housing a variety of shops, bars and restaurants.On entering the piazza from the lower end, the baroque facade of Santa Maria della Assunta dominates the left-hand side of the street.