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Piazza delle Erbe is a square in the centre of Verona on the site of the Roman forum. Around it stand the Baroque Palazzo Maffei, the Gardello tower, the frescoed Mazzanti houses and the Casa dei Mercanti; in the middle are the 1368 fountain with the Roman statue called Madonna Verona and a column carrying the lion of St Mark.

The Scaliger Tombs are five Gothic funerary monuments of the della Scala family, who ruled Verona from the 13th to the late 14th century. They stand in a walled court beside the church of Santa Maria Antica, behind wrought-iron grilles with a ladder motif; the canopied tombs of Cangrande I, Mastino II and Cansignorio carry equestrian statues.

Ponte Pietra is a Roman arch bridge over the Adige in Verona, completed around 100 BC and the oldest bridge in the city; the Via Postumia crossed the river on it. The arch nearest the right bank was rebuilt in 1298, and the four arches blown up by retreating German troops in the Second World War were rebuilt in 1957 with the original stone.