Verona Travel Forum

Can you provide me with the address for Caserma Passalaqua? Thank you

You mean the old US Army Base? It looks like it was closed years ago...

Bill

Bill: Thank you....yes what was the street and approx location that it was on.
I was there in 1956-58 and visited again in 1975.

yes, closed and recently passed to municipality, that will use it for the nearby university...
Still need address?
ciao
Francesco

Thank you....yes, I would still like the address or main cross streets so I can find in on the satellite map.

I haven't found a stret address, but I did find an army website (which appears to be a forum), that locates the old base on a map, along with some old photos - see http://www.usarmygermany.com/Units/SETAF%20Units/USAREUR_SETAF%201.htm#Passa

Hmmmn, I am not sure if the circle on the map is accurate...the circle would put it on the north side of the river from the city center of Verona, but if you follow the Google link on that webpage, you'll see that it's at the intersection of Via Francesco Torbido and Viale Universita', which is southeast of the city center, just west of the Verona Porta Vescovo train station...Francesco, does that sound right?

Bill

Thank both of you so much....I thought it was north, and I know it was next to a large crematorium....

Did you look at the Google photo...does that match the layout you remember?

Bill

Yes, Bill, you got it!

Look here: http://tinyurl.com/5hexyv

The old Passalacqua, going probably to become a sort of University campus, is north from via Francesco Torbido (the grenn you see is the tob of the old venetian/austrian fortification) and east from Viale Università.

Quite a big complex, now nearly in the center of the city.

Ciao!
Francesco

Ooppss we were all writing together. Yes, there is the main Verona monumenta cemetery quite close. You see it as a big square just SW from the Passalacqua.

Thank you so very much to both mccalpin and effeti. You were both very helpful and I thank both of you for your help. You both live in a wonderful city and someday I hope to return for the third time. Dmeulemans

Sadly, I can't claim to live in Verona, but Francesco does and is a great ambassador for his home town (I lived in Rome myself, but Francesco still speaks to me anyway ;-) )

Bill

:-) And still trying to spare a certain magnum of Amarone Masi Costasera...