Arcas escalígeras
Última actualización el 9 de noviembre de 2026Horarios verificados noviembre de 2026
En un pequeño recinto junto a la iglesia de Santa Maria Antica, a un minuto de la piazza dei Signori, se alzan las tumbas de la familia della Scala, que gobernó Verona a lo largo del siglo XIV.
Están entre los mejores monumentos funerarios góticos de Italia: doseles de piedra sobre columnas, cada uno con un sarcófago, cada uno rematado por el señor difunto a caballo con armadura completa.
Todo el conjunto queda cercado por una reja de hierro forjado con el emblema de la familia, una escalera —scala— repetida una y otra vez. Es un escudo empleado como arquitectura, y funciona.
El reto para quien visita
The enclosure is shut for the winter — it closed on 2 November 2026. That is the whole trap, and it costs nothing to avoid once you know it: the tombs are in a small walled yard that the comune opens seasonally, and outside the season you read them from the street through the wrought-iron railing. Which, as it happens, is where the best of them is anyway.
There is also no ticket to buy. When the enclosure is open, entry is free but reserved — you need a ticket already used that same day at another of Verona's civic museums, or a VeronaCard, a Veneto MyCARD or a My IMUV Card. Cash at the gate is not one of the options.
Verificado en Comune di Verona, noviembre de 2026.
Consejos y estrategia de visita
Cuándo ir
Morning light is best for photographing the tombs through the railing, which is otherwise awkward.
Any season works for a street-level look, since there is nothing to enter.
Early or late in the day avoids the flow between Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza dei Signori, which is heavy in the middle of the day in season.
To go inside the enclosure, check opening in advance -- it is not reliably open outside the main season.
Cómo aprovecharlo al máximo
Look up, and look through. The tombs are seen from the street through the ironwork, which is adequate because the monuments are tall and the enclosure is tiny — the equestrian figures on top are the point and they are above the railing line anyway.
Stand on the corner towards Santa Maria Antica for the clearest angle through the grille. Twenty minutes covers this fully; treat it as a stop between Piazza dei Signori and the rest of the centre rather than a visit, and do not plan the day around getting inside the enclosure, which opens irregularly.
Cuánto cuesta
Nothing, from the street. The railing, the tombs behind it and Cangrande I on the highest of them are public and permanent, at any hour.
Inside the enclosure is free but conditional, and only in season. It is reserved to holders of a ticket already used that day at another civic museum or monument, to VeronaCard and Veneto MyCARD holders, to My IMUV Card holders, and to the other categories entitled to free entry. There is no standalone ticket for the Arche at any price.
Cómo llegar y entrar
Entrada: Gratis · Free but reserved: a ticket used the same day at another civic museum, or a VeronaCard, Veneto MyCARD or My IMUV Card. No standalone ticket exists
Precios verificados en noviembre de 2026
Las tumbas son visibles gratis desde la calle a través de la reja de hierro, que es como las ve la mayoría y resulta realmente suficiente: el recinto es pequeño y los monumentos son altos.
El acceso al interior del recinto es posible con entrada, a menudo combinada con la Torre dei Lamberti, pero la apertura es limitada y estacional.
Están junto a Santa Maria Antica, a un minuto a pie de la piazza dei Signori y a cinco de la piazza delle Erbe.
Calcula de quince a veinte minutos. Es una parada dentro de un paseo por el centro más que un destino.
La calle de fuera está a nivel y es accesible; el recinto en sí tiene pavimento histórico irregular.
Verificado en Comune di Verona, noviembre de 2026.
Accesibilidad del lugar
The view that matters is from the street, and the street is flat. A paved lane a minute from Piazza dei Signori — no steps, no gate, no ticket — and the wrought-iron railing is as much the exhibit as the tombs behind it. Verona's destination portal answers its own accessibility question for this monument with "completely accessible".
That makes this one of the few monuments in the city where the out-of-season, no-entry version is not a lesser visit. Cangrande I sits on the highest canopy and is read from outside the railing by everyone, ticket or no ticket.
Inside the enclosure is a finer question than the portal's answer covers. The ground in there is historic paving in a confined yard, and whether the gate itself has a step is not something anyone publishes — a tourist board calling a monument accessible is a judgement about the monument, not a survey of its threshold. If getting inside the railing matters, ask the civic museums before you plan around it.
Verificado en Visit Verona, noviembre de 2026.
Datos rápidos
- Tipo: Monumento
- Entrada: Gratis
- Reserva: No hace falta — entradas en taquilla
- Visita típica: Unos 20 minutos
- Construido: 14th century
- Construido para: the della Scala lords of Verona
- Diseñado por: Bonino da Campione (Cansignorio’s tomb)
- Estilo arquitectónico: Gótico italiano
- A coat of arms used as a fence: The wrought-iron enclosure repeats the della Scala emblem -- a ladder, scala -- over and over, turning the family arms into the structure that guards them.
- What the 2004 examination found: Cangrande I’s tomb was opened in 2004 and his body examined; the analysis found lethal levels of digitalis, consistent with the poisoning his contemporaries suspected.
- Patrimonio de la Humanidad de la UNESCO: Sí
Dónde está
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Visita responsable
Las tumbas son mármol blanco a la intemperie, que lleva siete siglos al aire libre, y su estado lo demuestra. No toques la piedra de la reja ni te apoyes en el cercado.
Esta es una calle estrecha en una ruta peatonal concurrida. Los fotógrafos que se paran en la reja la bloquean con facilidad: apártate en vez de quedarte en el flujo.
Santa Maria Antica, al lado, es una iglesia en activo; guarda silencio cerca de su puerta.
Ver la estatua original de Cangrande en Castelvecchio y no solo la copia de aquí compensa la entrada del museo, y apoya a la colección que la conserva.