Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Verona, Italy

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 6.5 km
Ascend 86 m
Descend 97 m

Explore Verona in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in VeronaIndividual Sights in Verona

Sight 1: Giardino Giusti

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Giardino GiustiThis Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. / CC BY-SA 4.0

Palazzo Giusti is a civil building located on the corner of Via Mazzini and Via Scala in Verona. It was built in the second half of the fifteenth century on commission by the Giusti family and is characterized by a mixture of late Gothic and Renaissance styles. A substantial portion, however, has become part of Palazzo Sambonifacio and was completely renovated in the eighteenth century to a design by Adriano Cristofali.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Giusti (Verona) (IT), Website

480 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Chiesa di Santa Maria in Organo

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Santa Maria in Organo is a Roman Catholic church in Verona, Northern Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria in Organo, Verona (EN)

274 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Lo spino del filo spinato

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Lo spino del filo spinato L'utente che ha caricato in origine il file è stato Cacao90 di Wikipedia in italiano / CC BY 3.0

The sculpture The Spino of the Barbed Wire is a bronze work of the XXI century that is located in Piazza Isolo in Verona.

Wikipedia: Lo spino del filo spinato (IT)

1113 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 4: Palazzo Miniscalchi Erizzo

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Palazzo Miniscalchi ErizzoThis Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. / CC BY-SA 4.0

Palazzo Miniscalchi Erizzo is a civil building located in the heart of the historic center of Verona, located on the corner of Via San Mammaso, along which the medieval part of the building stands, and Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, where the courtyard of honor and the nineteenth-century extension opens. Since 1990 the building has been open to the public and transformed into a house-museum, having the name of Miniscalchi-Erizzo Museum Foundation.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Miniscalchi-Erizzo (IT), Website

288 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Loggia di Frà Giocondo

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Loggia di Frà GiocondoThis Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Loggia del Consiglio, also known as the Loggia di Fra Giocondo from the name of the humanist friar Giovanni Giocondo, who was long believed to be the designer of the building, is a significant episode of Veronese architecture of the second half of the fifteenth century. The loggia, which is located in Piazza dei Signori, in the heart of Verona, was a representative building wanted by the leaders of the Municipality for the sessions of the National Council, and is currently home to the offices of the Province of Verona.

Wikipedia: Loggia del Consiglio (IT)

32 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 6: Piazza dei Signori

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Piazza dei Signori is a city square in Verona, Italy.

Wikipedia: Piazza dei Signori, Verona (EN)

87 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Arche Scaligere

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The Scaliger Tombs is a group of five Gothic funerary monuments in Verona, Italy, celebrating the Scaliger family, who ruled in Verona from the 13th to the late 14th century.

Wikipedia: Scaliger Tombs (EN)

38 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 8: Chiesa di Santa Maria Antica

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Chiesa di Santa Maria AnticaThis Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. / CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria Antica, Verona (EN)

171 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Teatro Nuovo

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The Teatro Nuovo, in addition to being one of the main Italian theaters, is also the second opera house in Verona and Veneto. It is mainly used for prose performances, and is used less and less for musical works or lectures.

Wikipedia: Teatro Nuovo (Verona) (IT), Website

268 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Leone della Serenissima - Piazza Erbe

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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.

Wikipedia: Lion of Saint Mark (EN)

120 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Herbs Square

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Piazza delle Erbe is a square in Verona, northern Italy. It was once the town's forum during the time of the Roman Empire.

Wikipedia: Piazza delle Erbe, Verona (EN)

203 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Chiesa di San Giovanni in Foro

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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.

Wikipedia: San Giovanni in Foro, Verona (EN)

165 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Chiesa di Sant'Eufemia

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Chiesa di Sant'EufemiaThis Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. / CC BY-SA 4.0

The church of Sant'Eufemia is Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church in Verona, region of Veneto, Italy.

Wikipedia: Sant'Eufemia, Verona (EN)

777 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 14: Arsenale Austriaco

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Arsenale AustriacoThis Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Campagnola artillery arsenal, originally called the Franz Josef I artillery arsenal but better known as the Verona arsenal or the Austrian arsenal of Verona, is a military establishment built by the Austrian Empire in Verona, now located in the Borgo Trento district. The preliminary studies and the elaboration of the project, commissioned by Field Marshal Josef Radetzky, were held in 1854 with the choice of the executive project by Major Conrad Petrasch, director of the Genie-Direktion of Verona. The construction of the arsenal was completed in 1861 according to the reduced plan of 1859.

Wikipedia: Arsenale Franz Josef I (IT)

622 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 15: Chiesa di San Zeno in Oratorio

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Chiesa di San Zeno in OratorioThis Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. / CC BY-SA 4.0

The church of San Zeno in the Oratory, also known with the name of the church of San Zenetto, is a place of Catholic worship that stands in the San Zeno district in Verona, a few steps from Castelvecchio; It is part of the diocese of Verona.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Zeno in Oratorio (IT)

341 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Teatro Ristori

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The Teatro Ristori is a theatre in the city of Verona, with a capacity of 496 seats, inaugurated in 1844 and reopened in 2011 after a long restoration work.

Wikipedia: Teatro Ristori (IT), Website

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa degli Scalzi

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Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, known as the church of the Scalzi is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located in central Verona, region of Veneto, Italy.

Wikipedia: Scalzi, Verona (EN)

77 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: Carcere degli Scalzi

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Carcere degli Scalzi

The Scalzi prison was a convent of the Order of Discalced Carmelites adjacent to the church of the Scalzi in Verona, built between 1666 and 1750, suppressed in 1806 by Napoleonic decree and used as a prison from 1883 to 1945.

Wikipedia: Carcere degli Scalzi (IT)

1223 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 19: Porta San Zeno

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Porta San Zeno was a gate or portal of the former outer medieval walls of the city of Verona, Italy. It was designed and built during 1542 by the architect Michele Sanmicheli.

Wikipedia: Porta San Zeno, Verona (EN)

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