Arche Scaligere site features

Cangrande’s smiling statue

Sword raised and grinning, above the church door. The original is in Castelvecchio; the one here is a copy.

Cansignorio’s tomb

Bonino da Campione's hexagonal canopy, the most elaborate of the group and the high point of Gothic funerary sculpture in the region.

The ladder railing

A wrought-iron enclosure built entirely around the della Scala emblem, repeated as a structural motif.

Santa Maria Antica

The small Romanesque church the tombs are attached to, plain and much older than they are.