Arena of Verona

In the heart of Piazza Bra stands the Roman Amphitheatre that was built in the first half of the 1st century A.D, in the period which marked the end of the Augustus’s Empire and the beginning of Claudius’s.
It is the 3rd largest amphitheatre...

Basilica of San Zeno

The Basilica of San Zeno is without any doubt one of the most beautiful and better preserved examples of Romanesque architecture in the whole of Northern Italy. What strikes the visitor most is the warm colours of the façade, due to the...

Piazza delle Erbe

The Forum, centre of city life during Roman times, was situated here. The Piazza delle Erbe has continued to fill this same role for centuries: meeting place, home to the market, and also home to the city's administration. 
The centre of the...

Arche Scaligere

Near the small church of S. Maria Antica, which was founded in the 7th century and rebuilt in Romanesque style in 1185, is the Scaligeri cemetery, situated inside a fence with a beautiful wrought iron gate that is decorated with the coat-of-arms...

Castelvecchio

The castle, an imposing civic building from the medieval Veronese period, was built between 1354 and 1356 by order of Cangrande II della Scala. The design was conceived by the della Scala family as a defence against both outside invasions and...

Torre dei Lamberti

The Medieval Tower was began in the XII Century, and on several occasions raised. You can note it nowadays by the different materials used, as tuff brick and marble. The restoration lasted until 1464, and the large clock was added much later, in...

Piazza Bra

This large square offers an extraordinary glimpse on the history of Verona, and is a sort of foyer of the Arena, that attract thousands of spectators for its shows. For more than two centuries it is loved by the Veronese strolling along the...

Museum of Castelvecchio

Castelvecchio was built in the period 1354-1357 by Cangrande II of the ruling Della Scala family. It was intended both as a home and a defensive fortification. After various vicissitudes, it was used as a barracks both during Napoleonic and...

Piazza dei Signori

Walking through the Costa Arch you arrive in Piazza dei Signori. On the left hand-side you first encounter the facade of the Domus Nova, in Venitian style of the 12th century.
Continuing your walk in the square clockwise you can admire the...

Council Lodge (or Fra 'Giocondo)

Also known as the loggia by Fra' Giocondo for erroneous attribution to the celebrated architect of Verona, it was erected in 1476-93 at the behest of the elders of the city of Verona, as venue for the meetings of the City Council (which was a...

Giulietta's home

The building, dating back to the XIII century, was the Cappello family’s property for a long time, whose coat of arms is carved in the inner yard arch. The identification of the Cappellos with the Capulets gave birth to the idea that there stood...

Cathedral of Verona

The Cathedral, which is dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta, is the central structure of a complex of architectural buildings which include San Giovanni in Fonte, Santa Elena, the Canons’ cloister, the Capitular library, the square in front of the...

Juliet's Tomb

"I’ll bury thee in a triumphant grave... 
A grave? Oh, no. A lantern, slaughtered youth, 
For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes
This vault a feasting presence full of light.
Death, lie thou there, by a dead man...

Roman Theatre

The Archaeological Museum was founded in 1924 and hosts archaeological finds both from Verona and its surrounding areas (epigraphs, sculptures, mosaics, bronzes, etc.) as well as pieces from other collections.
About 600 works of art are...

Church of Sant'Anastasia

The church of St. Anastasia is a fine example of Italian Gothic architecture. It was designed by two Dominican friars and work began on it as from 1290 AD. Work lasted throughout the 14th and 15th centuries and by the early years of the 16th...

Archaeological Museum at the Roman Theater

The Archaeological Museum was founded in 1924 and hosts archaeological finds both from Verona and its surrounding areas (epigraphs, sculptures, mosaics, bronzes, etc.) as well as pieces from other collections.
About 600 works of art are...

Giardino Giusto

The garden is an urban complex of great interest and beauty that has been visited and celebrated throughout the centuries by famous people in history and culture. 
Nature, art, history, make the Giusti garden famous in the world. 
Created...

Ponte Scaligero

In front of the Castelvecchio keep there is the Scaligeri Bridge (Ponte Scaligero), stretching over the river Adige, now only used as a pedestrian walkway.
Built in the second half of the 14th century, this massive structure is made of bricks,...

Palazzo Maffei

Piazza San Zeno

Palace of the Reason

Built in the late twelfth century, it was the seat of the Municipality of the District Court and the Corte d'Assise (1875). During the Venetian was the seat of the Tribunal, of the prison and the College of Notaries, offices and commercial...

Church of Santa Maria Antica

Santa Maria Antica is a Roman Catholic church, Romanesque in style. It dates back to 1185, rebuilt after the earthquake of 1117 destroyed the original building that dated back to the end of the period of Lombard domination in the 7th century. The...

Church of San Fermo

On the banks of the river Adige, out of the Roman Porta Leoni, in the same place where the saints Fermo and Rustico were tortured to death in 304, people built a church in the 5th-6th c. in honour of them.
Between 755 and 759 St. Annone, the...

Church of San Giorgio in Braida

Founded as a Benedictine monastery in 1046, it was completely renovated in Renaissance style after the monastery was given to the congregation of San Giorgio in Alga, in 1441. 
The building is dominated by a large dome of Michele San Micheli....

House of Romeo

The house of Romeo is one of Shakespeare's places in Verona.  Although historians claim that it was the abode of Cagnolo Nogarola, the grand building is known as the home of Romeo.  Since the family of the Montecchi, really existed, and lived in...

Porta Borsari

Its name has late medieval origins deriving from the bursarii who exacted the episcopal duties in the Middle Ages. In the Roman epoch it was called Porta Iovia from a temple entitled to Jupiter lying just outside the gate: its remains can still...

Stone Bridge

It stretches over the ancient ford across the Adige River with its five arcades emblematic of the dominations that had been following one after the other in Verona through the centuries.
The foundations of a former masonry bridge had possibly...

Domus Mercatorum

Torre del Gardello

Porta Leoni

Situated on the Cardus Maximus of the Roman street-grid it took its name, in the XV century, from a nearby sarcophagus lid bearing two lions and which is now situated behind Umberto I monument.
The gate was thirteen meters high (as high as the...

Modern Art Gallery - Palazzo Forti

Grand Guard Palace

Civic Museum of Natural History

The Civic Museum of Natural History in Verona, located in the prestigious palazzo Pompei, houses a few scientific sections that deal with the study of minerals and rocks, paleontology and zoology.
The prehistoric and botanical sections have...

Miniscalchi-Erizzo Museum

The historic home, where the family Miniscalchi lived for 5 centuries, since 1977 has been restored and converted into a museum open to the public according to of Count Mario Miniscalchi-Erizzo's will. 
The museum is divided into 15 rooms on...

Synagogue of Verona

Church of St. Stephen

The basilica, which was consecrated in 421, was for four centuries the burying site of Veronese Bishops. The crypt was built during the first half of the 10th century. The façade is made up of rows of soft stone and brick; a high tiburium rises...

Arch of the Gavi

It is an elegant I century AD construction of the Roman architect Lucio Vitruvio Cerdone, that celebrates the splendour of the gens Gavia, an important Roman family of Verona. In ancient times it overlooked the Via Postumia. The arch was...

Church of St. Peter Incarnario

African Museum of Verona

The theologian John Mbiti writes: “In Africa I am because we are”. Meaning that only the sense of belonging to a concrete community gives to the individual the elements necessary to define his/her full identity.
Feeling part of the eternal...

Capitanio Palace (or Cansignorio)

The building, also known as Cansignorio Palace, was a residence of the Scaligeri family since the thirteenth century. It was rebuilt by Cansignorio in the second half of the fourteenth century. The building was built on a complex of buildings of...