Via Mazzini in Verona comprises both a first stretch, built over a Roman-era secondary decumanus, and a second part added by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, which required the demolition of several buildings. The street, then known as via Nuova, was a dirt track in the Middle Ages and only cleared and paved in the early 1800s. On the road is the Arvedi loggia, one of the most important examples of Neo-Classicism in Verona. Today it is the city’s main shopping street, with an unbroken sequence of elegant storefronts.
