Description
The Synagogue of Verona stands on Via Portici, a stone's throw from Piazza delle Erbe, in the heart of the old ghetto: a large temple with an ocher-yellow and white neoclassical facade, inaugurated in 1929 for a Jewish community recorded in the city as early as 978.
Above the portal the Tablets of the Law are carved. Inside, the spacious hall keeps its original furnishings and decoration: on the wall facing Jerusalem stands the red marble Aron from 1645, with the tevah in front of it, and the women's gallery rests on columns of the same marble.
Construction began in 1864 and stopped for lack of funds: the building was finished only in the 20th century, to a revised design. On the left side, a plaque remembers Rita Rosani, a Jewish partisan killed in 1944 in the mountains around Verona and awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valor.
Above the portal the Tablets of the Law are carved. Inside, the spacious hall keeps its original furnishings and decoration: on the wall facing Jerusalem stands the red marble Aron from 1645, with the tevah in front of it, and the women's gallery rests on columns of the same marble.
Construction began in 1864 and stopped for lack of funds: the building was finished only in the 20th century, to a revised design. On the left side, a plaque remembers Rita Rosani, a Jewish partisan killed in 1944 in the mountains around Verona and awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valor.