Monumental access to the historic center of Verona, built between 1532 and 1540 under the direction of the architect Michele Sanmicheli as part of an important renovation of the southern city walls. The monument in which the needs of civil architecture and those of a military order merge and which refers to the noblest models of the Renaissance, was judged very positively by Giorgio Vasari, who in his The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects asserts that there was “never another work of greater magnitude or better understood”.
