Miniscalchi Palace in via San Mamaso is a splendid example of late Gothic architecture. Its decorative parts (portal, two large double lancet windows and sixteen single lancet windows) were made by the workshop of "Quell'Agnolo di...
The Museum is located in the architectural complex of the Duomo and can be accessed through the Romanesque cloister of the Cathedral.
Collections (donations from Canons and private parties, objects from churches in the area or found during...
The original structure of Palazzo Forti is datable back to the thirteenth century. The only evidence of this is the so-called "wing of Ezzellino da Romano". It is in fact related to Ezzellino III, tyrannical captain of the people who ruled Verona...
The church of the Holy Apostles has early Christian foundations, but it was rebuilt in the twelfth century. Several times again until the eighteenth century and finally rebuilt after the last war. Of the Romanesque building just the outer walls,...
The Accademia Filarmonica di Verona is an academy dedicated to the performance and study of music, founded in 1543 in Verona, Italy. At its founding it consisted of a group of young noblemen with humanistic and literary inclinations, who were...
The church, in the vicinity of the Organo gate, already existed in the Lombard era and later became an important Benedictine monastery.
During the half of the 15th century, the sacristy (defined "the most beautiful in Italy” by G.Vasari) and...
The church of St. Thomas Becket, better known as the church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, is a church located near the historic center of Verona, just across the Ponte Nuovo del Popolo. It is dedicated to the English saint Thomas Becket.
The...
The church of Sant'Eufemia is an ancient church in Verona. A church at the site was likely present by the 11th or 12th centuries, although the main layout we see today was completed only in the 14th century. In the interior, altarpieces were...
The convent of San Bernardino was build two years after the canonization of the saint, in 1452, upon explicit request of Verona citizens. It barely survived the suppression and spoliation of the nineteenth century. The monastery served, from time...
The church was founded on the Maximum Decuman, bordered directly with the Foro, whence the name of the building. Due to its proximity to the Foro, it got the title of basilica too. The church was damaged by the fire that destroyed most of Verona...
Romanesque church of the early twelfth century, built on the site of an early Christian church (fragments of decorations in the entrance yard). It was heavily restored in 1877 and after World War II.
The building has the typical vestment of...
Porta Palio was built between 1550 and 1561 under the direction of architect and engineer Michele Sanmicheli, who however never saw the completed work due to his death in 1559. Sanmicheli also made the Porta Nuova and Porta San Zeno, examples of...
Capitolare library is housed in the palace of the Canonicato. Established as a "scriptorium" in the fifth century, it is one of the most important ecclesiastical libraries in Europe. Ancient books with miniatures, precious manuscripts and many...
Among Europe’s most ancient public museums, the Lapidary Museum (with collections of Greek, Etruscan, Paleo-Veneta and Roman, as well as Arab epigraphs) was founded in 1745 by one of Verona’s most illustrious figures, Scipione Maffei, whose...