The full story
Begin beside Castelvecchio at Arco dei Gavi, an honorific arch once standing on the Via Postumia. Continue toward Porta Borsari, whose surviving facade marked the main entrance on Verona's east-west street. That line reaches Piazza delle Erbe, occupying the site of the Roman forum even though most buildings around it are much later. Piazza Bra and the Arena show the city's appetite for monumental public architecture; the amphitheater remains in active use. Ponte Pietra adds a different lesson. Its arches combine Roman fabric with medieval, early modern and postwar rebuilding. Together these places make Roman Verona understandable as a connected city, not a collection of isolated ruins. Walking the sequence also reveals how later Verona kept using the Roman axis, even as medieval houses, markets and churches changed everything around it.