Italy. Verona

Verona

Verona Arena



The Verona Arena is an amphitheatre, the third largest in Italy after the Colosseum in Rome and the arena in Capua.


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San Fermo Maggiore Church







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Piazza delle Erbe



Madonna Verona Fountain on one end of the Piazza. The sculpture dates back to 380 AD although the fountain was built in 1368



The market place in the morning.

The amphitheater was built in the 1st century AD. Today it hosts the annual Verona Opera Festival each summer.

St. Maria Cathedral

The Torre dei Lamberti is an 84 m high tower in the Old Town of Verona.

Santa Maria Antica is a small Roman Catholic tucked away in the back streets of Verona. The original building was destroyed by the earthquake of 1117, and was rebuilt in 1185 in the tradition Romanesque style of round arches, simple columns and layers of tuff and red bricks. The Scala merchant Family turned it into their private church and the tombs of Cangrande, Mastino II and Cansignorio are considered fine examples of Gothic art. 

The Scaliger Tombs - tombs of the ancient lords of Verona

Centro Storico of Verona,

Palazzo Domus Nova.

The Scaliger Bridge, also known as Castel Vecchio Bridge because it connects the city’s late medieval castle to the Adige’s left bank. Iy originally was built between 1354 and 1356 by Cangrande II della Scala,

In WW2 fleeing German troops blew up all of Verona’s bridges. The Castel Vecchio Bridge and The Victory Bridge (below)were also blown up and destroyed

The Ponte della Vittoria is located in Verona on the Adige River . A monumental bridge to commemorate victory and to remember the fallen of Verona during WW1 The bridge was destroyed in WW1 and rebuilt in 1931. In 1945 the retreating German Army destroyed all the bridges in Verona.

The Victory Bridge 

We later exit Verona through this Arch at Porta Dela Bra O

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