Forte Parona
Forte Parona stands beside the right bank of the Adige, just upstream from the Parona railway bridge near Verona. Built between 1859 and 1860, it formed the northern pivot of the city’s second entrenched field.
The fort combined an octagonal earthwork with a central circular redoubt, dry moat, caponiers, casemates, and two entrance portals reached by drawbridges. Its guns covered the river bends from Settimo di Pescantina to Chievo, protecting the railway bridge, Brenner railway, road, plains, and nearby hills. Four 12-centimetre rifled breech-loading cannons stood alongside 24 smoothbore guns, while wartime accommodation served 450 infantry and 70 artillerymen.
An Allied air raid in 1944 triggered explosives inside and reduced the structure to ruins. Vegetation now covers the surviving earthworks and moat.
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