Ponte di Castelvecchio

One of the distinctive symbols of the city of Verona, regarded as the most daring and remarkable work of the Veronese Middle Ages, the bridge was built between 1354 and 1356 by Cangrande II della Scala, with the function of providing a safe escape route to Tyrol in case of riots from enemy factions within the city.
The powerful construction boasts 3 unequal arches made of brick and features fortifications and battlements.

In 1802, following the French occupation, the tower on the countryside side and the battlements were removed to more easily accommodate cannons.
At the end of World War II, the bridge was blown up by the retreating German army and was fully reconstructed with brick masonry and stone front arches according to the design of engineer Arturo Danusso and a team composed of architect Piero Gazzola, engineer Alberto Minghetti for the technical part, and architect Libero Cecchini for the artistic part.

There are traces of reused construction material from the Roman era: a series of Corinthian capitals embedded in the first pier towards Castelvecchio, visible only when the river is low (one has been extracted and placed on the walkway) and a Roman funerary monument at the entrance to the Arsenal (found in the foundations during the reconstruction of '45).