Discover Castello Superiore

What survives is the enclosure -- curtain walls with swallowtail merlons, corner towers, and the shell of the keep -- rather than habitable buildings. It reads as a fortification rather than a residence, which is what it was.

The more interesting structure is the connecting wall: two arms running down the hillside to enclose the lower town, so that castle and settlement form one continuous defended system. Walking up beside it is the best way to understand how the whole thing worked.

Construction is brick over stone footings, the standard Scaligeri method, with the Ghibelline merlons that mark Veronese work throughout the Veneto.