Antiques hunting – Verona

As every writer when you take a pen you must have done a research before you start writing, of course if you haven’t already visited the city or we can just shape it as a fictional article.

When we hear „Verona”, everyone’s mind flights to Shakespeare’s play „Romeo and Juliet”, right? Some would say that Shakespeare brought all tourists in Verona, some would say that the reason for hosting hundred of visitors could be the construction of the highways. The local people will tell us „only after the WW II Verona has become a visited city because they built the highways”.

If we plan to see Verona only for the Juliet’s balcony, it doesn’t worth that. It is okay to mark Verona as a seen place and yell to our friends we just hit it, but Verona means more than Via Capello where is located the famous Capulet’ house. Perhaps few of you would say about me I never been in love, in fact Verona stands for more than a love story…and we cannot reduce an antic jewel to a forfeiture.

Set among beautiful cities as Venice and Rome, Verona, well-known as „the little Rome” is a dream which has been for many tourists, a part of a jaunt through Italy. The heart of the ancient city will take us on a journey of culture and emotion like no other.

The National Arena dates from the first century A.D. and didn’t lose its vocation gained over the time. As little Colosseum, Arena has never been fatigued over the centuries, the prove is still there. The famous gladiators who entertained the public by engaging in a mortal combat or they were hunted by the fierce animals made the Arena wildly known. Nowadays, the amphitheatre hosts varied events and could hold up 25.000 spectators. The acoustic is great and the program for 2014 of Arena Opera Festival can be found: http://www.arena.it/en-US/HOMEen.html
Other cultural events take place in summer inside of the Roman Theatre located in front of Ponte Postumio.

They say Verona is the second city in Italy where we can find a huge concentration of Roman vestiges. The Stone Bridge, the Gavi Arch, Porta Borsari and Porta Leona are outstanding monuments from Roman ages. Then who knew that Verona was a papal seat’s city between 1181-1185 and nowadays hosts the tomb of Pope Lucius III in the Cathedral Santa Maria Matricolare? A beautiful Church where the Romanesque and Gothic forms make an extraordinary mix of columns and arcades from Duomo di Verona.

Verona is a rich city not in tourists as Venice, we cannot compare them, everyone has the own charm and the differences make both, unique in fact. The asset is made by Churches and those opera collections held inside of these beautiful architectures, historical buildings, palazzos, alleyways, piazzas. And why not by the warm ambiance of the locals.

Every time of a year we have something to do in Verona, the winters aren’t heavy and the summers aren’t bad at all. So we could admire Verona with all what has in it. From small pieces of antique furniture, paintings, old books, little gems to all those spectacular buildings, Amphitheatre, Cathedral, Palazzo; each every piece conjures up emotions, thoughts and dreams. Walking quiet, down the alleyways or sitting in a piazza and sipping a glass of wine or an Italian coffee, whatever we’ll choose, Verona is already scoring against us…