Discover Piazza Castello

The square is long and narrow rather than formal, arcaded down both sides, running between the Rocca at one end and the Torre dell'Orologio at the other.

The arcades are continuous, on brick piers and columns, and are the reason the square works as a social space in a climate with hot summers and wet winters.

Above them the buildings are three and four storeys of plastered brick, painted in the ochres and creams of the Veneto plain, with plain rectangular windows and the occasional Gothic survival.

The Torre dell'Orologio closes one end and the bell tower stands nearby -- the two medieval towers that frame the centre.

There is no unified architectural scheme. The square accumulated, and reads as a series of individual buildings sharing an arcade line.