The scaliger tombs #2

Close up on one of the Scaliger Tombs. Saturday, sunny morning.

Possibly I've been a bit obsessed with the beauty of the Scaliger Tombs lately....well, I hope you like it!

The scaliger tombs

Detail of the Arche Scaligere (more posts here) against the Palazzo del Podestà.

The Scaliger tombs

The Scaliger Tombs (Italian: Arche scaligere) is a group of five Gothic funerary monuments in Verona celebrating the Scaliger family, who ruled in Verona from the 13th to the late 14th century... (Wikipedia, read more...)

Antiques in the evening

A few steps from the Arche Scaligere (on the left) and Piazza Dante right after the arch; on the left Vicolo Cavalletto. This is one of the most pictoresque spots of town and in the evening it is absolutely enchanting. I could only hear my steps on the marble sidewalk as I approached my favourite antiques shop...

Arche Scaligere

The Scala family ruled Verona between the XIII and XIV century. Mastino, Cansignorio, Cangrande are the leading names of the Scala family. Power, intrigues, treasons, murders, art and poetry (Cangrande was the patron of Dante, Petrarch and Giotto): a fascinating medieval history.

In my photo you can see the tomb of Cansignorio della Scala... read more 

The red flag bears the insigna of the Scala family.