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...

Roman road

Roman road, circa I AD. This bit of roman road lies under the Arco dei Gavi. You can touch this smooth dark pavement where the cart wheels left a deep mark, over the centuries (I have always wondered, though, if it was the continuous use that produced the mark or if, instead, it was purposedly carved to obtain a sort of rail. Anyone knows better?).

This few meters of black stones are nonetheless a tiny bit of the great Postumia Road...(read more)