Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Verona, Italy
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6.5 km
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 VeronaSight 1: Giardino Giusti
Book Ticket*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.
Sight 2: Chiesa di Santa Maria in Organo
Santa Maria in Organo is a Roman Catholic church in Verona, Northern Italy.
Sight 3: Lo spino del filo spinato
The sculpture The Spino of the Barbed Wire is a bronze work of the XXI century that is located in Piazza Isolo in Verona.
Sight 4: Palazzo Miniscalchi Erizzo
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.
Sight 5: Loggia di Frà Giocondo
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.
Sight 6: Piazza dei Signori
Piazza dei Signori is a city square in Verona, Italy.
Sight 7: Arche Scaligere
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.
Sight 8: 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.
Sight 9: Teatro Nuovo
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.
Sight 10: 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.
Sight 11: Herbs Square
Book Ticket*Piazza delle Erbe is a square in Verona, northern Italy. It was once the town's forum during the time of the Roman Empire.
Sight 12: 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.
Sight 13: Chiesa di Sant'Eufemia
The church of Sant'Eufemia is Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church in Verona, region of Veneto, Italy.
Sight 14: Arsenale Austriaco
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.
Sight 15: Chiesa di San Zeno in Oratorio
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.
Sight 16: Teatro Ristori
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.
Sight 17: Chiesa degli Scalzi
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.
Sight 18: 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.
Sight 19: Porta San Zeno
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.
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