Forte Porta Nuova, originally named Werk Clam, was a part of Verona's comprehensive defensive system. It was built between 1848 and 1850, and was completed with the detached wall at Carnot and three caponiers in 1859. The fort, located at the start of a long leafy avenue, served as part of the eastern cardinal of the fortified deployment, flanked by forte Palio and torre Tombetta. Despite the construction of the second field camp in 1861, the fort continued to play a defensive role.
The central, cylindrical, one-floor reduced, complete with a terrapien platform for artillery, is situated near the ridotto di gola. Two converging walls demarcated the courtyard of safety, connecting the semi-tower to the large ridotto di gola, which had a cruciform plan and a defensive caponier function.
Two orders of artillery fire batteries were inserted opposite each other. The new front of gola featured a broken traced wall for artillery defense. Each of the two portals had an adjacent drawbridge. In the courtyard of safety, between the two reduced, was the water reserve well.
The semi-octagonal terrapien, with artillery positions, was defended on the dry moat bottom by the detached wall at Carnot, with three caponiers for flanking artillery. The two poterne, in correspondence with the lateral caponiere, put the internal courtyard of the fort in communication with the circuit wall along the wall at Carnot, ordered for infantry, and with the central caponier.
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Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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