Piazza delle Erbe in Verona

Piazza delle Erbe is a colored fruit and vegetable market with its group of huge sun umbrellas, surrounded by historic buildings and monuments, that’s the principal characteristic of the most ancient square in Verona. The medieval buildings took the place of the Romans ones. Here you can see the popular side of the city, without forget the culture. Saturday and Sunday morning there’s the market but in the evening this square become the living room of the city, where the city dwellers meet to have an aperitif. A tour in piazza Erbe let you discover the monuments that make this city so beautiful and that signed Verona’s history. In the center of the square there’s the fountain “Madonna Verona”, which is very ancient (1368). There’s an ancient capital too, also called “Tribuna” or (wrongly) “pillory”. It dates back to the XIII century, when under this capital sits the “podestà” waiting to take office.