Verona - Piazza dei Signori

The Palazzo della Ragione (Town Hall), on the south side of the Piazza dei Signori, was begun in 1193 but much altered in later centuries; the main front is Renaissance (1524). In the courtyard are a Gothic grand staircase (1446-50) and the entrance to the Torre del Comune. Also in the square are a battlemented tower and the Palazzo dei Tribunali, formerly the Palazzo del Capitano with a Renaissance doorway by Michele Sammichele, converted in 1530-31 from a Scaliger Palace. On the east side of the square we find the Palazzo del Governo (Prefecture), originally another Scaliger palace, rebuilt in the 16th century (doorway by Sammichele, 1532).