Ages

Excavation at Porta Leona, the Roman city layer below the actual street level.

Porta Leoni

Detail of Porta Leoni. Again, another example of history layers in town: roman, medieval and recent (probably XVIII century). I find this corner absolutely enchanting...

School trips

Verona is a popular school trip destination, for both italian and foreign pupils. Here the students are gathered at the Scavi of Porta Leoni while their teacher is giving them hystorical notions about the roman site. Their next steps will probably be the Arena and the Teatro Romano.

Back to the first century B.C.

Verona hosts one of the richest collections of Roman remains in Northern Italy.

This is the biggest roman excavation in town and I love it. I often stop by and admire the variety of structures, the shapes, the bricks and the huge stones and wonder how many hidden treasures there might be under my feet as I walk in the city centre.

I also like to observe the sophisticated architectural work that made the site perfectly visible from the street level.

This site marked the south-western border of the roman Verona, accessible through Porta dei Leoni which is a few steps to the left. 

Bank treasures

This is a bank's window and it shows the ancient roman remains underneath the bank premises. There are a few of such sites below the street surface: the roman city "layer" was about two meters down. Some of them are to be found in restaurants' cellars, shops' storage rooms, churches and so on....