Via Postumia - Verona, Veneto, Italy
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At this spot the Porta Palio (Palio gate) gives you entrance to the old city of Venice. The main road in Roman times - Via Postumia went through this spot.
Waymark Code: WM16N25
Location: Veneto, Italy
Date Posted: 08/31/2022
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The map on the tourist sign (picture added) shows how the Via Postumia road went in Italy (smaller map) and also specifically (biiger map) in Verona (red line).
About the Via Postumia
"The Via Postumia was an ancient Roman road of northern Italy constructed in 148 BC by the consul Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus. It ran from the coast at Genua through the mountains to Dertona, Placentia (the termination of the Via Aemilia) and Cremona, just east of the point where it crossed the Po River. From Cremona the road ran eastward to Bedriacum, the current town of Calvatone, where it forked, one branch running to the right to Mantua, the other to the left to Verona, crossing the Adige river on the Ponte Pietra, the only bridge on the Adige river at that time, and then traversing the Venetian plain, crossing the Piave River at Maserada sul Piave until finally reaching Aquileia, an important military frontier town founded by Rome in 181 BC. "
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About the Porta Palio:
"Porta Palio is a monumental entrance to Verona built between 1550 and 1561 on a project by the architect Michele Sanmicheli . This gate is the most noteworthy monument born from the Renaissance research on the theme of the triumph in the city gate, as well as being the most extreme architectural manifestation of the munire et ornare policy
The decision to build a door in this position was taken in the 1630s by Francesco Maria I Della Rovere , as he was concerned about the position of the small medieval gate of the Palio, an opening of secondary importance in the Scaliger walls. difficult to defend: he proposed to close it and replace it with a door with the function of a knight placed in line with the existing important road course (which followed the course of the ancient Via Postumia ), a position that also made it defensible from Castel San Felice , located on a hill on the opposite side of the city."
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