Arriving in the city from either the north or south, travelling along the Roman consular Postumia road, you can still see the ancient urban layout, divided into three parallel roads running lengthwise. This was based on an administrative and land-based structure that divided the territory into lots, characterised by houses facing the roads and delimiting the agricultural estates. The visit to the medieval fortress begins on the north-western side of the Castle, which has a square plan measuring approximately 135 metres on each side, built on an artificial embankment on the southern side of the town, not far from the consular Postumia road. You can enter through the main gate on the north-eastern side, protected by a ravelin, and see the Rocchetta  (lit. Little Fortress), the original nucleus located in the middle of the northern side, with its high keep. Originally, this was surrounded by a wide moat that separated it from the parade ground. It was here that the Scaligeri militias responsible for defending the border once gathered, surrounded by a large quadrangular towered enclosure, which was interspersed with seven shielded towers. Exiting through the central southern gate, you find yourself on the moat of the Tione River, which flows from west to east, at the point where the Serraglio Scaligero once stood; built on the left bank of the river, today only its foundations are still visible along the course of the river itself. With the construction of this building, the Castello Scaligero (lit. Scaligeri Castle) in Villafranca became the stronghold of the long walls, now almost completely disappeared, which blocked the plain to the south, from the Mincio River to the marshes near Villafranca (locality of Gazol). Turning your back on the Castle, walk along the moat/garden on your right until you return to the car park. From here, walk along Via Rizzini and you will find the Chiesa dei Frati Cappuccini (lit. the Capuchin Friars’ Church) on your left. On Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, heading towards Verona and the centre of Villafranca, on the right is the Chiesa della Disciplina o della Visitazione (lit. the Church of the Discipline, or of the Visitation), the 18th-century Duomo dei S.S. Pietro e Paolo (lit. the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul), which is a copy of the Palladian Chiesa del Redentore di Venezia (the Church of the Holy Redeemer) in Venice. Moreover, at the end of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II is the Oratorio di San Rocco (lit. the Oratory of St. Rocco), on whose façade frescoes from the school of painter Morone are still visible. In Piazza Giovanni XXIII, you will admire the 1929 war memorial by Ettore Fagiuoli and Egidio Girelli. In the city centre, a short distance along Via della Pace, you can also visit the Casa del Trattato – Palazzo Bottagisio (lit. the House of the Treaty – Bottagisio Palace), the site of the preliminary peace negotiations of the Second Italian War of Independence between Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary and Emperor Napoleon III of France: this is in fact considered a crucial event that brought Villafranca to the forefront of the history of Italian unification.