Porta Leoni Archeological Site Site Features

The gate in cross-section

Half a Roman gate embedded in a later facade, cut vertically so its construction is visible from the street. There is nothing else quite like it in the city.

The open excavation

Below pavement level beside it: the republican gate's foundations and the Roman street, several metres down, visible through a railing at any hour.

Two gates in one wall

First-century BC brick and tuff below, first-century AD white limestone above -- the rebuild sitting directly on its predecessor.

The street level

The clearest demonstration in Verona of how much the city has risen since antiquity.