Verona

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21st June 2014, day 16                                                                           All photos by Hetty

We had a day in Verona on our way home from Val Gardena, in the Dolomites. It takes about 20 minutes to walk from the train station to the historic centre. It was originally an important Roman town.

Puorta Nuova, Roman, near the Train and bus stations

 

Palaces on the Listòn

The Arena –  The  third largest Roman amphitheatre in Italy, built early in the first century AD and still used today – seats 25,000 people.

The were putting up scenery for an opera

Inside the Arena

Looking down from Arena to Piazza Bra, with 19th century Palazzo Barbieri, now city hall (left with columns) and Palazzo della Gran Guardia (right)

Via Mazzini

Casa di Giulietta 13th century – Juliet’s house, with balcony! Now a museum

Juliet

Piazza delle Erbe (Market square on the site of the Roman forum) with, left to right:  the Torre dei Gardello – restored and heightened in 1363; Palazzo Maffei – facing, 17th century with statues of Greek gods on top; frescoed Casa Mazzanti; and the Torre dei Lamberti.

 

 

The fountain (left) was built in 1368 and uses a statue called Madonna Verona, which is a Roman sculpture dating to 380 AD; the statue of the Lion of Saint Mark is on a white marble column 1524; and the frescoed Casa Mazzanti 14th century (right)

Berto Barbarani, a poet, in Piazza delle Erbe

 Domus Mercatorum, now a bank, in Piazza delle Erbe

Arco della Costa – an arch with a whale rib hanging from it, leads into into Piazza dei Signori

 

 

 

Piazza dei Signori, (Lords’ Square),

 

Palazzo del Comune

Loggia del Consiglio – 15th century (left), mediaeval Palazzo del Podestà (brick) , and statue of Dante, 1865, Piazza dei Signori

Arche Scaligere – Scaligeri cemetery

Sant’Anastasia

Ponte Pietra

Roman theatre across the river Adige, from the bridge

Verona’s Cathedral (Duomo)

 

Porta Borsari – Roman

Arco dei Gavi – Roman

 

Castelvecchio, (old castle) 1354, and Ponte Scaligero

2 drawbridges

Then it was time to collect our bags from the train station, catch a bus to the airport, and fly home.

Our flight home was wonderful – we flew into the sunset.

The Alps outlined

Looking down on Neuchâtel and the lakes

Coast of France

The end

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