Arco della Costa
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| Address : | Piazza Erbe, 20, 37121 Verona VR, Italy |
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| City : | Verona |
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Sergio Saved on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ L’Arco della Costa, che collega Piazza delle Erbe con Piazza dei Signori, è cosiddetto per l’osso appeso sin dal XVIII secolo e facilmente visibile passandoci sotto.
Diverse le ipotesi e le leggende: forse apparteneva ad una balena (costa...della balena), oppure è un osso di Ittiosauro, rettile marino preistorico o, addirittura, potrebbe essere la "costola del demonio", cioè una sorta di reliquia recuperata dai Crociati durante la famosa battaglia di Lepanto nel 1571
Ultima curiosità: si dice che, quando vi passerà sotto una persona onesta e pura di cuore, la costola cadrà
 The Arco della Costa, which connects Piazza delle Erbe with Piazza dei Signori, is so-called for the hanging bone since the eighteenth century and is easily visible when passing under it.
Several hypotheses and legends: perhaps it belonged to a whale (coast ... of the whale), or it is a bone of Ichthyosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile or, even, it could be the "devil's rib", that is a sort of recovered relic by the Crusaders during the famous battle of Lepanto in 1571
Last curiosity: it is said that when an honest and pure-hearted person passes under it, the rib will fall
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Enrico Perini on Google
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A.J. Safieh on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Nice
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Hanne V on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Beautiful to walk through, the style reminds me of Venice
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mygamertag2010X on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Such an underwhelming Arco, that we didn't even notice the first couple times we walked through it.
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Tom Yenk on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Walked by it several times.......small and ordinary.
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Andrea Attig Prouzova on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ You have to make a reservation to be able to get tickets. They are usually sold out for the day
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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ VERONA, THE CITY OF “ROMEO and Juliet,” is mysteriously home to a centuries-old whale bone. The trouble is, Verona is located about 75 miles (120 km) from the sea, and no one is quite sure how it got there.
The bone, believed to be a rib, hangs in the centre of the medieval Arco della Costa (Arch of the Rib), the entry point between Verona’s Piazza Erbe and Piazza dei Signori. It’s been hanging there, suspended from an iron chain, since at least the 1700s, though some estimates suggest much longer, possibly since the 15th century.
In the Middle Ages and Renaissance era, the walkway above the arch provided a safe passage for judges and magistrates between the city hall and their living quarters, so that they needn’t associate with the common or “corrupt” people bellow. This may be the ironic origin of the myth of the whalebone’s magic: It’s claimed that it will fall on the first innocent or truthful person to walk under the archway.
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