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WALKING THROUGH VERONA |
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Arena
in Verona The
Arena of Verona is one of the most representative monuments of the city.Built
around I° sec. AD, during the Roman domination, it has elliptical
formand is constituted by several rings and by lines of arcs. Formerly
used astheater of fights among gladiators, today the building is famous
all overthe world for musicals and lyric representations that are held
during thesummer season. Submitted during the centuries to rehashes
because ofearthquakes and carelessness, today brought back in his shine,
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Piazza
dei Signori Piazza
dei Signori, said commonly " Dante " Plaza (in honor to the
statue of the high poet that here towers), it is one of the most fascinating
places of Verona, with its aristocratic lines, enriched by elegant constructions
dated to the period in the town Verona as the Building of the Commune
or the 1193 Podestà, built with alternate lines of bricks and tufa
and enriched by three-light windows and the Loggia of the Suggestion,
jewel of the Renaissance art to Verona, by the wish of a humanist architect,
Fra 'Giocondo. |
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Verona,
Ponte Pietra The
Ponte Pietra or pons lapideus is a remain of a Roman bridge, immediately
reconstructed after the bombardment during the second world war. It
anchors has the line and part of the original stones of white calcareous
blocks and in bricks the signs of medieval restaurations suffered for
the impetus of the river. |
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Ponte Pietra on I break
down the church of S. Giorgio in Braida
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Verona
and its Arche Scaligere One of the characteristic monuments in Verona, merit of the architecture and the Gothic sculpture, is the Arche Scaligere, that are risen imposing along the street of S. Maria Antica. It is a sort of small cemetery deprived in which they find place, in the middle of the coats of arms of the Scala, by now symbol of the city, the burials of the scaliger descent: inside the enclosure in beaten iron, there are the graves of Mastino II and of Cansignorio, while on a broadside of the church of S. Maria Antica it overhangs the grave of Cangrande I.FOLLOW |
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Hermitage of St. Rocchetto On the summit of the Cavro Mountain the hermitage
of St. Spool rises, originally risen in memory of the Calvary, wanted
by the Company of the Saint Sepulchre around the 1500. Of simple construction
with an only vain separated in three apses, preceded from a portico with
five arcades with annexed a small bell tower with some mullioned windows
with two lights in the top, originally with coverage in bricks. |
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