Museum Today
Saturday, July 21st, 2018In the center of the Piazza delle Erbe, the four stone pillars, is the so-called Bernina (stone gazebo). At this point, swore allegiance to government officials. Here, the newly elected Podesta vowed to devote his life the inhabitants of Verona. At the same time in this place to punish those responsible. In the granite foundation arbor let into the famous ancient standards of honesty: the size of a loaf of bread and a measure of length of cloth.
Particularly clever merchants, who were caught with the help of these simple device for the arm, exposed for all to see naked. In addition, each passing by a resident of Verona could spit in them and something they throw. And another feature of the Piazza delle Erbe – it's not frozen Museum architecture. Life in the area, its market exists today. It is true that merchants in the pavilion has not set up. Through a huge arch with hanging beneath it "for luck" fin whale, you can get to a nearby Piazza dei Signoria. The pearl of the area is certainly a beautiful loggia del Consiglio, erected in 1476-1493, respectively. The name of the architect is unknown, although there is a version that the project belongs to Fra Giocondo. On the top ledge, he found the statues of five famous Gentlemen of Verona: Pliny the Elder Catullus, Vitruvius, Mark and Cornelius Nepos. This loggia today comes in many textbooks architecture.