From the maps, medieval Este seems to arise with two very close squares, overlooking the same blocks with commercial buildings, arcades.
On one, the Maggiore, there are also important public buildings and it has a direct connection to the bridges leading to the Castle and outside the city, to the south; the other (which is now divided into two pieces: Trento and Trieste) has no roads leading out, it is the square for the city market, less representative, but vital and identity-forming for all residents.
The center of ancient Este is organized according to a urban typology of double square: one institutional, the other for the daily market (named after wood in the 1500s, herbs in the 1700s, fruits in the 1800s), designed since the Middle Ages bordered by "gothic" lots made for commerce on the ground floor (with arcade on two sides).
At the beginning of the 19th century, the square has a shape consolidated for over two centuries, but on the west side some changes are highlighted: the brolo of the Borotto palace, taken in the 18th-century version and the building on via Cavour, with an acute angled arcade on both sides.
In Piazza delle Erbe (now Trieste) the well’s true location has been moved to make way for the obelisk of Garibaldi, a sign not only of local patriotism, but also of the functionality of the new aqueduct that supplies the houses and reduces the need to draw water in the square.
