Verona

Verona is known all over the world for being the set of one of the most famous and dramatic love stories written by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

Here Shakespeare also set the comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the play The Taming of the Shrew. However, the city is not only this; there are many beauties hidden inside and this is the reason why Verona is even known as “The Door of Italy” as the city anticipates what will be met then in the whole peninsula: art, history and culture that go far beyond the famous balcony. Verona’s main attractions are: the Arena, found in the city’s largest piazza, the Piazza Bra, and considered as the best preserved example of Roman amphitheatre in Italy, the Basilica of San Zeno, considered one of the great achievements of Romanesque architecture, Piazza delle Erbe, the oldest square of the city with its central fountain surmounted by a statue called Madonna Verona, the Castle of Castelvecchio, the most important military construction of the Scaliger dynasty that ruled the city in the Middle Ages, and the Ponte Scaligero, a bridge of the 14th century that was built by Cangrande II della Scala, to grant him a safe way of escape from the annexed castle (Castelvecchio) in the event of a rebellion of the population against his tyrannical rule.