AUSTRIAN VERONA
If one travels to Verona from the south, one cannot but see the
forts
and strongholds which are scattered on the Veronese hillsides,
such as S. Mattia, S. Leonardo (now converted into the
Sanctuary of the Madonna of Lourdes), and S. Sofia,
linked together by an entrenched military road nicknamed "lasagne",
which moves upwards from the Church of S. Giorgio, on the
banks of the Adige, to S. Mattia, the highest of these forts which,
with the Austrians "Torricelle and the ring of suburban
strongholds, compose a tight complex characterised by their massive
walls in irregularly hewn tufa.
