CASTELVECCHIO, Interior

Visitors to Castelvecchio are met with the huge place-of-arms, with statues, fountains, basins and broad stone walkways among the greenery guiding you into the building.

On the right are the rooms used for temporary exhibitions, while the back of the main building is embellished with windows, loggias and porticoes in Venetian Gothic style. Rising on the left is the austere wall that separates the two courtyards, which the tall keep looks over.

The twenty-nine rooms inside the castle are home to the collections of the Civic Museum.

The exquisitely sensitive approach adopted for displaying the collections in the centuries-old rooms, the choice of the materials and the variety of solutions adopted throughout the exhibitions make Castelvecchio an outstanding example of museography, the branch of architecture specialized in the design and creation of museums.

Next to the main tower, protected by a wooden roof, you can see a striking architectural detail: a stand with the splendid equestrian statue of Cangrande I della Scala, from the Scaliger Tombs (Arche)....