Verona

the Arena, a spectacular open-air theater, where each year one of the most famous opera seasons in the world takes place;

the Roman Theatre, which plays host to the Estate Teatrale Veronese (Verona Theatre Festival Season) and the Shakespeare Festival;

the imposing, monumental Arco dei Gavi (Gavi Arch), built in the 1^st century A.D., at the end of the reign of Augustus, by the Gavia family, one of the most prominent families of the time in terms of wealth and prestige;

Ponte Pietra (Stone Bridge), the city’s oldest crossing over the River Adige.

the medieval Domus Mercatorum, once the home of the city’s guilds of merchants, 

the thirteenth-century Torre del Gardello, on which the first public clock was installed in 1370 at the request of Cansignorio della Scala;

the historic Palazzo del Comune (City Hall);

in the middle of the square, the old fountain of the Verona "madonna", (madonna in medieval language meant lady, noblewomen), which depicts a woman made local red marble, a symbolic representation of the city and one of the most important and much loved monuments of the Veronese people. It was built in 1368 to celebrate the city’s splendour under the famous Signoria della Scala, the Lords of Verona, by one of its most important members, Cansignorio.