Leaves river

Autumn leaves form a colourful river at Castelvecchio Museum.

Times mix

Mix of styles and ages here. From the left: the medieval walls, the Gran Guardia (built between 1818 and 1853, in the last decades of the the austrian domination) and the back of Palazzo Barbieri, built after the second W.W.

The newsagent's bicycle

Behind the newsagent's kiosk on the medieval walls.

Proportions

Close up on the base of the huge columns of Palazzo Barbieri, home of the town Council.

Across the road you can see the medieval walls and the "Bar Bra" (named after Piazza Bra, a few steps ahead), whose premises are straight into the walls. I definitely must remember this café for one of my "midmorning" coffees...

Roman, Middle Ages and contemporary

That girl in the red jacket is waiting the bus on Via Pallone. Behind her the high medieval walls; across the road a patch of a roman road made of smooth dark stone, just like the one under the Arco dei Gavi.

In Verona, like in most of italian towns, remote history is still visible, scattered all over the place, sometimes ignored...

Meeting at Ponte Cittadella

Behind the medieval walls