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Porta San Zeno was a gate or portal of the former outer medieval walls of the city of Verona, Italy. It was designed and built during 1542 by the architect Michele Sanmicheli.
The structure resembles the gate Sanmicheli designed for another city ruled by Venice, Zara in Dalmatia. The building around the gate has served as the offices of the Carnival of Verona. [1]
Verona is a city on the River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region, and is the largest city municipality in the region and in northeastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona covers an area of 1,426 km2 (550.58 sq mi) and has a population of 714,310 inhabitants. It is one of the main tourist destinations in Northern Italy because of its artistic heritage and several annual fairs and shows as well as the opera season in the Arena, an ancient Roman amphitheater.
Michele Sanmicheli, sometimes also transcribed as Sammicheli, Sanmichele or Sammichele, was an Italian architect and urban planner who was a citizen of the Republic of Venice.
Events in the history of Verona, in Italy.
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Porta Nuova may refer to:
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Palazzo Dalla Torre is a patrician palace in Verona, northern Italy, designed by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio for Giambattista Dalla Torre. The palazzo was probably built from 1555, but remained unfinished. Allied bombardment in 1945 demolished a great part of the building. However, conspicuous remains of Palladio’s construction survive: the majestic access portal and a courtyard with columns and entablature.
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Count Alessandro Pompei (1705–1772) was an Italian architect and author of a prominent treatise on architecture: Cinque Ordini dell’ Architettura Civile di Michele Sanmicheli or Five Orders of the Civic Architecture of Michele Sanmicheli. Sanmicheli was a prominent venetian architect, who concentrated on solid and often staid government buildings.
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Porta Palio is a gate or portal of the former outer medieval walls of the city of Verona, Italy. It was designed and built during 1550–1561 by the architect Michele Sanmicheli.
Porta San Giorgio was a gate or portal of the former outer medieval walls of the city of Verona, Italy.
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Porta Nuova is a gateway to the historic center of Verona, built between 1532 and 1540. It was designed by architect Michele Sanmicheli. Giorgio Vasari said of the gateway in Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori "never before any other work of more grandeur or better design."
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The monuments of Verona are a vast number of architecturally, archaeologically, historically, and artistically significant cultural assets that characterize the city of Verona. Precisely because of the richness of its monuments and the urban evolution that has developed seamlessly over the centuries, UNESCO declared the city a World Heritage Site in 2000.
The churches of Verona are the places of Catholic worship that have been built within the administrative boundaries of the municipality of Verona, evidence of the ups and downs that the city has experienced throughout its history.
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