Verona travel guide

Top 10 sights in Verona

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   Verona Arena

   A Roman amphitheatre of about AD 30 that held some thirty thousand people, and among the best preserved anywhere — the 1117 earthquake took the outer ring, leaving four arches of it standing. Opera has been staged in it every summer since 1913, sung without amplification.

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   Ponte Pietra

   A Roman arch bridge completed about 100 BC, carrying the road from Genoa to Aquileia across the Adige. German engineers blew it up in 1945; the city dredged its stones out of the river and rebuilt it exactly, finishing in 1957.

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   Verona Cathedral

   A cathedral of 1187 whose Romanesque front carries a porch of twisted columns on the backs of griffins, with the paladins Roland and Oliver carved beside the door. Titian's Assumption hangs in the first chapel on the left.

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   Basilica of San Zeno

   A basilica of 1138 and one of the finest Romanesque churches in Europe. Its bronze doors are made up of forty-eight cast panels of biblical scenes, its rose window is a wheel of fortune, and Mantegna's altarpiece of 1459 is still on the high altar.

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   Quadrilatero

   The Austrian fortress system of Verona, Peschiera, Mantua and Legnago, which held northern Italy for Vienna through the wars of independence. Verona was its hub, and the ramparts and forts around the city are the physical remains of that occupation.

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   piazza delle Erbe

   The Roman forum, and the market square ever since — long, narrow and closed at one end by a painted palace front. A stone canopy in the middle marks where the town's edicts were proclaimed, and the fountain carries a Roman statue the city calls Madonna Verona.

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   Castelvecchio

   A brick castle built in the 1350s by the Scaligeri as much against their own citizens as against outsiders, with a fortified bridge across the river for escape. Its museum was remodelled by Carlo Scarpa and the two things are inseparable.

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   piazza Bra

   The largest square in Verona, with the Arena on one side and a curve of cafés on the other, and the widest pavement in Italy running along it — the Liston, laid in the 1770s. It is where the city walks in the evening.

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   Arco dei Gavi

   A Roman arch of the first century AD raised by a private family rather than the state, which is very rare, at the point where the Via Postumia entered the city. Napoleon's troops dismantled it in 1805 and it was reassembled from the stones in 1932.

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    Roman theatre of Verona

    A Roman theatre of the first century BC cut into the hillside across the river, older than the Arena and long buried under houses that a nineteenth-century collector bought and demolished. Shakespeare has been performed in it every summer since 1948.

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   Scaliger Tombs

   Five Gothic tombs of the Scaligeri, who ruled Verona from the thirteenth century, standing in a railed enclosure beside their family church. The grandest carry the dead man in armour on horseback above his own sarcophagus, which was a new idea at the time.

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   Castelvecchio Museum

   The city museum in Castelvecchio, remodelled between 1958 and 1974 by Carlo Scarpa in a way that is studied by architects as closely as the collection is by art historians. The equestrian Cangrande is mounted on a concrete beam in the open air, at the exact height Scarpa chose.

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   Sant'Anastasia

   The largest church in Verona, begun in 1290 and finished nearly two centuries later. Two crouching figures inside the door carry the holy water basins — Veronese call them the hunchbacks — and Pisanello's fresco of St George setting out is above the Pellegrini chapel.

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   Palazzo Maffei

   A baroque palace on the Piazza delle Erbe, opened in 2020 as a private museum in which a Renaissance panel may hang next to a Fontana or a Boccioni. The spiral staircase in its courtyard is the most photographed object in the building.

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   Torre dei Lamberti

   A tower begun in 1172 and raised to eighty-four metres in the fifteenth century after lightning took its top. A lift covers most of the climb, and its two bells — one for council meetings, one for alarms — still hang at the summit.

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   Palazzo Giusti del Giardino

   A sixteenth-century palace and garden near Piazza Isolo close to the centre of Verona. The garden is regarded as an outstanding example of the Italian formal manner, with a cypress avenue climbing to a belvedere.

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   Porta Borsari

   A Roman gate of the first century AD, built over an earlier one, and the main entrance to the city from the Postumian road. Its two tiers of arches and windows survive complete on the street front, with the modern city built against the back of it.

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   piazza dei Signori

   Square in Verona ringed by the medieval government buildings. Dante, who lived here in exile from 1312, stands at the centre in a marble statue of 1865.

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   San Fermo Maggiore

   Two churches stacked one on the other: a lower Romanesque church of the eleventh century, still intact, and an upper Gothic one of the fourteenth with a wooden keel ceiling painted with four hundred saints. Both are entered on one ticket.

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    Porta Leoni

    A Roman gate of the republican period, remodelled under the empire, of which one half survives embedded in a later building. An excavation in front of it shows the original street and the tower base three metres below today's level.

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