Description
Verona's Austrian Arsenal is the great arms factory the Habsburgs built between 1854 and 1861 in the Campagnola, the bend of the Adige across from Castelvecchio. Today it is a complex of historic buildings around a busy, popular square.
Nine neo-Romanesque buildings banded in tufa and brick stand in perfect symmetry inside a perimeter wall measuring 392 by 176 meters, with round, crenellated towers at the corners. In the middle of the south side stands the Command Pavilion, with crenellated turrets and a large four-light window above the entrance.
The main entrance lines up with the Castelvecchio Bridge. Next to it, the old pool of the military swimming school has become a reflecting pool: a few centimeters of water over slabs of black basalt, with a monumental fountain, now a place to meet and unwind.
One of the storehouses, three-quarters destroyed by bombs in World War II and left in ruins for years, became the Church of San Francesco d'Assisi in the 1980s.
Nine neo-Romanesque buildings banded in tufa and brick stand in perfect symmetry inside a perimeter wall measuring 392 by 176 meters, with round, crenellated towers at the corners. In the middle of the south side stands the Command Pavilion, with crenellated turrets and a large four-light window above the entrance.
The main entrance lines up with the Castelvecchio Bridge. Next to it, the old pool of the military swimming school has become a reflecting pool: a few centimeters of water over slabs of black basalt, with a monumental fountain, now a place to meet and unwind.
One of the storehouses, three-quarters destroyed by bombs in World War II and left in ruins for years, became the Church of San Francesco d'Assisi in the 1980s.