39 Sights in Verona, Italy (with Map and Images)
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The tax barracks of Castel San Pietro or simply Castel San Pietro, originally called Aerarialcasernen Castel San Pietro, is a military building located on the San Pietro hill in Verona, in an elevated point and characterized by a wide panoramic view of the city of Verona, and for this reason a privileged destination for tourists and Veronese who can reach the square in front of the castle also via the Castel San Pietro funicular. The building was designed by the Austrian k.k. Genie-Direktion Verona stationed in the city and built between 1852 and 1858, when the remains of the curtain wall of the pre-existing castle, built at the end of the fourteenth century, were also restored.
The Ponte Pietra, is a Roman arch bridge crossing the Adige River in Verona, Italy. The bridge was completed in 100 BC, and the Via Postumia from Genoa to Aquileia passed over it. It is the oldest bridge in Verona.
3. Porta Nuova
Porta Nuova is a monumental access to the historic center of Verona, built between 1532 and 1540 on the direction of the architect Michele Sanmicheli as part of an important renewal of the southern wall of the city. The monument, in which a successful merger can be found between the needs of civil and military architecture and which refers to the most noble models of the Renaissance, was judged very positively by Giorgio Vasari, who in his lives of ' More excellent painters, sculptors and architectors asserts that there was "already ever else of greater greatness or better understood".
4. Arco dei Gavi
The Arco dei Gavi is an ancient structure in Verona, northern Italy. It was built by the gens Gavia, a noble Roman family who had their hometown in Verona, at the beginning of the Via Postumia, the Roman road leading to the city. During the Middle Ages it was used as a gate in the walls.
5. Chiesa di San Giovanni in Valle
The church of San Giovanni in Valle is a place of Catholic worship located in the street of Verona. One of the oldest churches in Verona, arose at the place of a pagan necropolis and a Roman temple. Little or nothing is known of the primitive building, however some elements, such as its location in the area where the Castrum of Theodoric the Great stood, suggest that in the beginning it could be the Arian Cathedral of Verona, in contrast with the Catholic Church of Saint Stephen. In any case, only part of the current crypt remains of this first church, as the rest of the building was seriously damaged by the earthquake that hit Verona in 1117. Already in 1120 the reconstruction of what the current building in style was then Romanesque, while in 1164 he had his consecration at the hands of the bishop of Verona Ognibene. During the Middle Ages there was also a collegiate church of clerics. In 1300 it was decided to expand the classroom of the building by lengthening the nave of a span, the pre -existing narthece was therefore incorporated into the church and the reconstructed facade from scratch. Over the following centuries the building did not undergo other relevant transformations, however it was deeply damaged during a bombing of the Second World War; At the end of the conflict, therefore, it was affected by a profound restoration.
6. Forte Fenilone
Forte Fenilone, originally called Werk d'Aspre, was a fortification located south-west of Verona, part of the complex city defensive system and more specifically of the first entrenched camp of the plain, put in place between 1848 and 1856. The fort was built in three different phases: in 1848 the embankment, the moat and the rampart were set, in 1849 the redoubt was built and in 1859 the closure of the gorge front and the construction of the wall detached to Carnot with its caponiers took place. The usefulness of the fort, however, diminished already after 1861, following the construction of the most advanced line of the second entrenched camp, although it retained the function of security against infantry infiltration. The works were supervised by the director of the Imperial Royal Office of Fortifications of Verona, Major Conrad Petrasch.
7. Forte Santa Caterina
Forte Santa Caterina, originally called Werk Hess, is a fortification located south of Verona, part of the complex city defensive system and more specifically of the first entrenched camp of the plain, put in place between 1848 and 1856. The fortified structure was built between 1850 and 1852 and the works were followed by the director of the Imperial Royal Office of Fortifications of Verona, Major Conrad Petrasch. Its name in Italian derives from the pre-existing chapel dedicated to the Sienese saint, located along the road that led from the sixteenth-century lazaretto di San Pancrazio to Porta Nuova, but was then officially named after Baron Heinrich von Hess, general of artillery and chief of staff in the army of Josef Radetzky, as well as subscriber of the armistice of Salasco.
8. Forte Tomba
Forte Tomba, originally called Werk Stadion, is a fortification located south of Verona, part of the complex city defensive system and more specifically of the second entrenched camp of the plain, put in place between 1859 and 1866. The fortified structure was built between 1860 and 1861 and the works were directed by the Imperial Royal Office of Fortifications of Verona. In the early fifties of the twentieth century, to give work to the unemployed, the earthworks of the fort were completely leveled, filling the ditch, while in the following years the reduced was gutted to rectify the road coming from Ostiglia; finally the state of conservation of the fort has further worsened in the nineties, when the junction of the South ring road was built.
9. Chiesa di San Giovanni in Foro
The church of San Giovanni in Foro in Verona, is located on Corso Magenta, near the Piazza Erbe, the site of the ancient Roman Forum on Corso Porta Borsari. A church at this site was gravely damaged during the fire that swept medieval Verona in 1172. During restorations in the early 1900s, it was found that Roman walls had been incorporated into the external walls of the church. The base of the bell-tower dates from the 14th century. The renaissance portal of the church was sculpted by Gerolamo Giolfino with statues of Saints John the Evangelist, Peter, and John the Baptist. The fresco in the niche depicting St John was completed by Nicola Giolfino. The 3 baroque bells are rung with the Veronese bellringing art.
10. Pantheon di Santa Maria in Stelle
The hypogeum of Santa Maria in Stelle, commonly known as the pantheon of Santa Maria in Stelle, is located in the homonymous hamlet of the municipality of Verona, at the beginning of Valpantena. It is an underground structure of difficult interpretation, built in the third century probably with the function of funerary monument, although it could also have been used as an aqueduct or nymphaeum to capture the waters of an underground source. From the fourth century the space was used as a chapel for Christian worship, intended use that maintained until the twelfth century. The structure was rediscovered in the eighteenth century, as documented by the reliefs of Gaetano Cristofali.
11. Forte Parona
Forte Parona, originally called Werk Erzherzog Albrecht, is a fortification located north-west of Verona, part of the complex city defensive system and more specifically of the second entrenched camp of the plain, put in place between 1859 and 1866. The fortified structure was built between 1859 and 1860 and the works were directed by the Imperial Royal Office of Fortifications of Verona. The structure was hit by an Allied aerial bombardment in 1944, towards the end of World War II, which caused the explosion of the explosives contained therein, reducing it to complete ruin. Only the remains of the embankment and the moat remain, completely invaded by vegetation.
12. Forte San Leonardo
Forte San Leonardo, originally called Werk San Leonardo, was a fortification located on the hills north-west of Verona, part of the complex city defensive system and more specifically of the sector of hill forts and advanced lowland forts, put in place between 1837 and 1843. The fortified structure was built in 1838 and the works were directed by the director of the Imperial Royal Office of Fortifications of Verona, the German Major General Franz von Scholl. In the second half of the twentieth century the structure was profoundly transformed to house the church of Our Lady of Lourdes, a subsidiary of the diocese of Verona.
13. Arsenale Austriaco
The artillery arsenal of Campagnola, originally called artillerie arsenal Franz Josef I but better known as the arsenal of Verona or Austrian arsenal of Verona, is a military establishment built by the Austrian Empire in Verona, today located in the district of Borgo Trento. The preliminary studies and the elaboration of the project, wanted by Field Marshal Josef Radetzky, were held in 1854 with the choice of the executive project of Major Conrad Petrasch, director of the Genie-Direktion of Verona. The construction of the arsenal ended in 1861 according to the reduced project of 1859.
14. Centro Internazionale di fotografia Scavi Scaligeri
The international photography center Scavi Scaligeri is an underground exhibition space that was created within an archaeological site that came to light between 1981 and 1983, in which photographic exhibitions have been hosted since 1996, as well as thematic workshops, educational itineraries, photography courses, shows and readings. Located in the courtyard of the Court, in the historic center of Verona, a few steps from Piazza delle Erbe, Piazza dei Signori and the Scaliger Tombs, it also allows you to see Roman, Lombard and medieval finds that have been preserved underground.
Wikipedia: Centro internazionale di fotografia Scavi Scaligeri (IT), Website
15. Museo di Castelvecchio
Castelvecchio Museum is a museum in Verona, northern Italy, located in the eponymous medieval castle. Restoration by the architect Carlo Scarpa between 1959 and 1973 has enhanced the appearance of the building and exhibits. Scarpa's architectural style is visible in the details for doorways, staircases, furnishings, and even fixtures designed to hold a specific piece of artwork. The renovation carefully balanced new and old, revealing the history of the original building where appropriate. Unusual at the time, this approach has now become a common approach to renovation.
16. Forte San Procolo
Forte San Procolo, originally called Vorwerk San Procolo, is a fortification located west of Verona, in the current Navigators district, part of the complex city defensive system and more in particular in the sector of the strong hilly and strong advanced plains, put in place Between 1837 and 1843. The fortified structure was built between 1840 and 1841 and the works were directed by the director of the imperial regio office of the fortifications of Verona, the main German general Franz von Scholl.
17. Forte Porta Nuova
Forte Porta Nuova, originally called Werk Clam, was a fortification located south of Verona, part of the complex citizen defensive system and more in particular of the first entrenched plain field, put in place between 1848 and 1856. The fort was built between 1848 and 1850 and completed with the wall detached from the Carnet and three Caponiere in 1859; The works were followed by the director of the Imperial Regio Office of the fortifications of Verona, the major Conrad Petrasch.
18. Santuario di Santa Teresa di Gesù Bambino
The church of Santa Teresa del Bambin Gesù is a place of Catholic worship located in the district of Borgo Roma in Verona. it is a parish church that is part of the vicariate of Verona Sud in the homonymous diocese, entrusted to the Discalced Carmelites. On 26 April 1938 it was elevated to the dignity of minor basilica, while in 1967 the bishop of Verona Giuseppe Carraro established the Teresian Basilica-Sanctuary.
19. Forte Chievo
Forte Chievo, originally Werk Kaiser Franz Josef, is a fortification located west of Verona, part of the complex city defensive system and more specifically of the first entrenched camp of the plain, put in place between 1848 and 1856. The fortified structure was built between 1850 and 1852 and the works were followed by the director of the Imperial Royal Office of Fortifications of Verona, Major Conrad Petrasch.
20. Chiesa di Santa Maria Antica
Santa Maria Antica is a Roman Catholic church in Verona, Italy. The current church is Romanesque in style and dates to 1185, rebuilt after the earthquake of 1117 destroyed the original building that dated back to the end of the period of Lombard domination in the 7th century. The only surviving remains of the 7th-century building is a fragment of black and white mosaic floor.
21. Museo archeologico al Teatro Romano
The archaeological museum at the Roman theater is a large museum complex located in the district of Veronetta in Verona, near the bend of the river Adige; it is composed of Palazzo Fontana, which serves as an entrance to the large area, the archaeological site of the Roman theater of Verona and the museum itself, located in the fifteenth-century convent of the Gesuati.
Wikipedia: Museo archeologico al teatro romano (IT), Website
22. Castel San Felice
Castel San Felice is a fortification located north of Verona, along the magistral city walls, where numerous construction phases have followed one another over the centuries, the last of which dates back to the first half of the nineteenth century, when it was restored and adapted to the new defensive needs by the Imperial Royal Office of the Fortifications of Verona.
23. Museo e pinacoteca Canonicale
The Canonical Museum is set up in the architectural complex of the Cathedral of Verona and can be accessed from Piazza Duomo. In it there are collections of archaeological materials from the pre-existing Roman buildings and early Christian basilicas, sacred furnishings and valuable sculptures and paintings dating from the twelfth to the nineteenth century.
24. Palazzo della Gran Guardia
The Gran Guardia is a civil building that delimits the southern side of Piazza Bra in Verona, whose construction began in the seventeenth century and ended, after a long pause, only in 1853. With its size and monumentality it manages to confront the Arena, which is located a few tens of meters away, beyond the nineteenth -century Gardens of the Bra.
25. Basilica di San Zeno Maggiore
The Basilica di San Zeno is a minor basilica of Verona, northern Italy constructed between 967 and 1398 AD. Its fame rests partly on its Romanesque architecture and partly upon the tradition that its crypt was the place of the marriage of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It stands adjacent to a Benedictine abbey, both dedicated to St Zeno of Verona.
26. Maffei Museum
The Maffeiano lapidary museum, founded in the first half of the eighteenth century by the Veronese scholar Scipione Maffei, is one of the oldest European public museum institutions, located in the heart of the historic center of Verona, within the municipal walls, overlooking Piazza Bra and a few steps from the Arena di Verona.
27. Leone della Serenissima - Piazza Erbe
The Lion of Saint Mark, representing Mark the Evangelist, pictured in the form of a winged lion, is an aspect of the Tetramorph. On the pinnacle of St Mark's Cathedral he is depicted as holding a Bible, and surmounting a golden lion which is the symbol of the city of Venice and formerly of the Venetian Republic.
28. Forte San Zeno
Fort San Zeno, originally called Werk Radetzky, was a fortification located west of Verona, part of the complex city defensive system and more specifically of the first entrenched camp of the plain, wanted by the Austrian field marshal Josef Radetzky and put in place between 1848 and 1856.
29. Area archeologica di Corte Sgarzarie
The Capitolium of Verona was a complex that was part of the Forum area of the Roman city, corresponding to today's Piazza delle Erbe. Parts of the cryptoporticus are visible and can be visited under the loggia of Corte Sgarzerie and in the crypt of the church of San Benedetto al Monte.
30. Torre della Catena
The Torre della Catena is a military building built during the fourteenth century on the bed of the Adige as part of the Scaliger defensive system of the city of Verona. The tower, now in disuse, is located between the Catena bridge and the Risorgimento bridge.
31. Porta Vescovo
Porta Vescovo was a gate or portal of the former outer medieval walls of the city of Verona, Italy. It was designed and built during 1520 by the architect Teodoro Trivulzio. It is named Vescovo, because the gate once collected a toll benefitting the bishop.
32. Giardino Giusti
The Giusti Palace and Garden are located in the east of Verona, Italy, a short distance from Piazza Isolo and near the city centre. The palace was built in the sixteenth century. The garden is considered one of the finest examples of an Italian garden.
33. Chiesa di San Nicolò
The church of San Nicolò all'Arena is a place of Catholic worship located in the heart of the historic center of Verona, behind the Roman amphitheater; it is a parish church that is part of the vicariate of Verona Centro in the homonymous diocese.
34. Saint Apostles' Church
Santi Apostoli, and the adjacent Romanesque style, small church (chiesetta) or chapel of the Sante Teuteria e Tosca, is an ancient Roman Catholic church in front of a piazza off Corso Cavour, in central Verona, region of Veneto, Italy.
35. Chiesa di San Zeno in Oratorio
The church of San Zeno in Oratorio, also known as the church of San Zenetto, is a place of Catholic worship located in the district of San Zeno in Verona, a few steps from Castelvecchio; it is part of the diocese of Verona.
36. Carcere degli Scalzi
The Scalzi prison was a convent of the Discalced Carmelite Order adjacent to the Scalzi church of Verona, built between 1666 and 1750, suppressed in 1806 by Napoleonic decree and used as a prison from 1883 to 1945.
37. Ponte Scaligero
The Castel Vecchio Bridge or Scaliger Bridge is a fortified bridge in Verona, northern Italy, over the Adige River. The segmental arch bridge featured the world's largest span at the time of its construction.
38. Cattedrale di Santa Maria Matricolare
Verona Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Verona, northern Italy, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the designation Santa Maria Matricolare. It is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Verona.
39. Chiesa dei Padri Filippini
The San Fermo Minore di Br à a church ("chiesa dei Filippini") is a Catholic place of worship in the heartland of the historic center of Verona; It is a parish church in the central parish of Verona.
Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Fermo e Rustico dei Filippini (IT)
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