Overview

Porta del Vescovo was built in 1520 and enlarged in 1860. It sits in a heavily fortified section of the Veronese walls, within which part of the Venetian Curtain, the Maddalene bastion (1527, altered in 1848), still remains. A gateway was open here by the Austrians to link the military section of Campo Fiore to the Porta Vescovo train station and the Campo Marzo bastion (now entirely covered with vegetation). To reach it one must pass the monumental cemetery towards Porta della Vittoria Nuova (1837). Further on one crosses the embankment of the San Francesco bridge, which takes its name from the bastion along the river built by Sanmicheli in 1551. The walls, were completely rebuilt in order to fend off any siege by troops armed with fire power. They are built to withstand artillery fire and their side elevations are such that they offer no shelter to attacking infantry; on the contrary the enemy would be subject to crossfire.