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First step a brisk climb up the Scalone Castello San Pietro. See you at the top!

😅Made it!

While the wall provides an exterior ring around the city the looping river was the last line of defence.

The view form Castel San Pietro is always breathtaking!

From here too we catch a glimpse of the outer wall on the skyline that we're gonna follow.

This isn't the wall I'm looking for!

That's more like it!

Back in the city Porta Vescovo is the ancient east gateway to Verona.

Nearby at Bastione delle Madallena there is a fantastic exhibition deep in the bowels of the wall that explains the construction and development of the city's defensive system. From inside you get a sense of the depth of the construction.

At this spot 18 year old Luigi Lenotti was shot by the Austrians in 1860.

Some typical sections of wall to the east of the city. centre

At this section you get a really good sense of the scale of the fortifications.

Memorial to fallen partisans in the most recent conflict fought on this soil.

Before we hit the city traffic!

And now we've hit the river again that forms the natural defence. We'll pick up the wall again on the other side!

Fantastic view as we cross the Adige. On the skyline you can trace the wall that we just followed.

Then we climb back onto the green oasis of the wall where there is even a colony of turtles!

The proud flags at Porta Nuova

Memorial to the massacre of Cefalonia

Austrian era fortifications

The open air festival on the walls will run all summer

Verona's family of turtles!

And finally (because I like my tours to have a happy ending)... The shady kiosk at San Zeno.

This one's for you @carl_brace 🍻

A really great urban run this morning following the ancient city walls and exploring some of the green spaces that encircle Verona. Plenty of history, culture and nature along the way as well!

A loop just under 15kms start to finish.