Arco dei Gavi in Verona

You're standing on the little square beside Castelvecchio, in front of the Arco dei Gavi. This Roman arch is almost two thousand years old. First, look at the niches on the sides. They once held statues of members of the Gavi family, a prominent Roman family from Verona. You can still read some names on the pedestals, like Caius Gavio Strabo and Marco Gavio Macrone. A family paying for a monumental arch like this themselves was very rare.