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COSA VEDERE
WHAT TO SEE
ЧТО ПОСМОТРЕТЬ
Un panorama
mozzafiato
dall’edificio
più alto
della città.
A breathtaking
view from the
highest building
in the city.
Башня Ламберти
С самой высокой
башни открывается
потрясающая
панорама на город.
building is the Palazzo del Capitanio, also known as the Palazzo del Tribunale. This
was the residence of the Scala family already in the 13th century. Its reconstruction
was commissioned by Cansignorio during the second half of the 14th century, and
it presents a large and solid Scala Dominion tower, as well as a handsome portal by
Michele Sanmicheli, and a central courtyard of the 15th century, which is closed in
and delimited by a three-part loggia with a portico. The Palazzo del Governo, also
known as the Prefettura, was commissioned at the beginning of the 14th century
by Cansignorio. Due to the fact that the Scala family were important patrons of the
arts, this is a fundamental center of 14th century Verona culture, where both Dante
and Giotto were received as honored guests. The Loggia del Consiglio was built
between 1476 and 1493, as the assembly seat for the town council. It presents an
eight-section round-arched portico, and at the piano nobile there are four wide mul-
lion windows. On top of the building, there are statues of illustrious figures of Verona
during the Roman times (Catullus, Pliny, Marcus Emilius , Vitruvius, and Cornelius
Nepos). Over the arch that connects the Loggia with the Casa della Pietà, there
is a statue of Girolamo Fracastoro, who was a doctor, a poet, and an astronomer,
from Verona. Closing the square, one finds the Palazzo dei Giudici, which was the
seat of the “podestà” and of the “Consigli minori”. And finally, from the 15th century
onwards, it was the dwellings of the Venetian judges.