The Arena di Verona is a Roman amphitheater in the historic center, in Piazza Bra, and one of the best preserved in the world. Built in the 1st century, it could hold about 30,000 spectators. Today, in summer, people still come here for the...
The Basilica of San Zeno is one of the great Romanesque churches of northern Italy, in the neighborhood that bears the name of Verona's patron saint. Outside, the golden tuff and the bronze portal stand out; inside, a wooden ceiling shaped like a...
Piazza delle Erbe has been the heart of Verona for two thousand years: the Roman forum stood here, and today it is a market among frescoed palaces, towers and monuments, under the white canopies of the stalls. It lies a few steps from Piazza dei...
The Scaliger Tombs are the monumental tombs of the Della Scala family, the lords of Verona in the 14th century. They stand next to the little church of Santa Maria Antica, a few steps from Piazza dei Signori. They are a Gothic funerary complex:...
Castelvecchio is a medieval castle on the Adige, right in the center of Verona, built by the Scaligers in the 14th century. Today it houses the city museum, but from outside you mostly see a red-brick fortress with crenellated walls, towers and a...
The Lamberti Tower is the tower that dominates Verona at 84 meters, halfway along Piazza delle Erbe. It has been open to the public since 1972: from the top you get a panorama of the city and the Torricelle hills.
It was begun in 1172 and...
Piazza Bra is the largest square in Verona and its living room: on one side the Arena, on the other elegant palaces and a long sidewalk where the Veronese have been strolling for more than two centuries. From here the streets lead to Piazza delle...
The Castelvecchio Museum is Verona's great art museum, inside the Scaliger fortress on the Adige. It gathers sculpture, painting and weapons from the Middle Ages to the 18th century in about thirty rooms, and the route is as famous as the works:...
Piazza dei Signori, also called Piazza Dante, is Verona's square of power: an elegant courtyard a few steps from Piazza delle Erbe, surrounded by Scaliger and Venetian palaces joined by arches and loggias. Here what happened in the city was...
The Loggia del Consiglio is one of the Renaissance jewels of Piazza dei Signori, in Verona: a portico of eight arches with four large mullioned windows above, all painted, and five statues on the roof. It is also called Fra' Giocondo's loggia,...
Juliet's House is a medieval tower-house on Via Cappello, a few steps from Piazza delle Erbe, in Verona, the goal of a popular secular pilgrimage for lovers. It is the most visited monument in the city.
And yet the balcony was installed in...
The Cathedral of Verona, the cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, is the city's mother church and a small world of layered eras: a Romanesque exterior in tuff and brick, a Gothic and Renaissance interior, and beside it the remains of two early...
Juliet's Tomb is an ancient stone sarcophagus, uncovered and empty, in a crypt of the former convent of San Francesco al Corso in Verona. According to tradition, Shakespeare's heroine Juliet Capulet was buried here: whether that is true is...
The Roman Theater of Verona is an open-air theater from the 1st century BC, at the foot of Colle San Pietro, on the left bank of the Adige. It is one of the best preserved in northern Italy, and in summer it becomes a real theater again, with the...
The Church of Sant'Anastasia is the largest church in Verona and its most important Gothic landmark, on the side of the square that bears its name, a couple of steps from Ponte Pietra. Outside it is brick and unfinished; inside it has three great...
The Archaeological Museum at the Roman Theater tells the story of Roman Verona inside a 15th-century former convent hanging on the hillside, in the Veronetta district, above the Roman theater. To reach it you climb the tiers of the...
The Giusti Garden is one of the best-known Italian Renaissance gardens of the late period, tucked behind the family palace in the Veronetta district of Verona. An avenue of cypresses climbs to a grotto and a terrace with a view over the...
The Scaliger Bridge, or Castelvecchio Bridge, is a fortified bridge of red brick and stone crossing the Adige in Verona, next to the castle it is named after. Over 120 meters long, it can only be crossed on foot.
It is not a bridge like...
Palazzo Maffei is the Baroque palace that closes off the northwest side of Piazza delle Erbe, in the heart of Verona. Since 2020 its main floor has been open to the public as a house museum, with over 350 works of art, ancient ones and above all...
Piazza San Zeno is the square that opens in front of the basilica of the same name, in the San Zeno district, just outside the center of Verona. Here Veronese Romanesque can be seen all at once: a great church, a tower and an even older little...
The Palazzo della Ragione is the old town hall of Verona, between Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza dei Signori. It has a medieval courtyard with a Gothic staircase and a frescoed chapel, and it houses the Achille Forti Gallery of Modern...
The Church of Santa Maria Antica is a small Romanesque church in Verona's historic center, in a corner of Piazza dei Signori, next to the Scaliger Tombs. It was the chapel of the Scaligeri, the lords of the city, and you spot it at once by a tomb...
The Church of San Fermo Maggiore is really two churches, one on top of the other, in Verona's historic center, dedicated to the martyrs Fermo and Rustico. Below is the dim Romanesque church of the Benedictines; above, the large, bright church of...
The Church of San Giorgio in Braida is a large Renaissance church on the Adige, in Veronetta, the bank opposite the historic center. It holds a masterpiece by Paolo Veronese, an enormous dome by Michele Sanmicheli and a bell tower left half...
Romeo's House is a medieval house on Via Arche Scaligere in Verona, a few steps from the Scaliger Tombs and not far from the better-known Juliet's House. It is one of the city's Shakespearean sites, but it is a private home and cannot be...
Porta Borsari is a Roman gate in Verona, at the end of Corso Porta Borsari: the white stone facade, about 13 meters high, with two arches and two rows of windows, is what remains of the main entrance to Roman Verona.
What you see is the...
Ponte Pietra is the oldest bridge in Verona over the Adige and the only one left from Roman times. It links the historic center to San Pietro Hill, with five arches of stone and brick that tell three eras at a glance.
The thing to do is to...
The Domus Mercatorum, or Merchants' House, is a medieval building facing Piazza delle Erbe in Verona. It was built between 1301 and 1304 for the guilds of the arts and trades, with a portico of arches in white stone and brick.
The thing to...
The Gardello Tower is a medieval tower a couple of steps from Piazza delle Erbe, in Verona, 44 meters high. It has a place in the city's history: in 1370 a bell clock rang from here for the first time.
At the top you can pick out the bell...
Porta Leoni is one of the gates of Verona's Roman walls, on Via Leoni. What remains is a white stone front from imperial times and an older one in brick, one in front of the other: two eras of the same gate in a single glance.
The thing to...
Palazzo Emilei Forti, also known as Palazzo Forti, is a large palace in the historic center of Verona. It has a neoclassical façade with a double entrance and hides a medieval wing and a Roman road inside: in a few steps you cross two thousand...
The Palazzo della Gran Guardia is a large palace, begun in the 1600s and finished only in 1853, closing the southern side of Piazza Bra in Verona, opposite the Arena. It has an 86-meter loggia and a facade that holds its own against the Roman...
Verona's Museo Civico di Storia Naturale (Civic Museum of Natural History) fills Palazzo Pompei, on the Lungadige Porta Vittoria, a short walk from the center: around three million specimens, among fossils, minerals, animals and plants, only part...
The Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo is a house museum in Verona's historic center, on Via San Mammaso: a late Gothic palazzo with a frescoed facade, lived in for centuries by the same family and open to the public since 1990 with its collections of art...
The Synagogue of Verona stands on Via Portici, a stone's throw from Piazza delle Erbe, in the heart of the old ghetto: a large temple with an ocher-yellow and white neoclassical facade, inaugurated in 1929 for a Jewish community recorded in the...
The church of Santo Stefano stands in Veronetta, on the bank of the Adige, near Ponte Pietra. It is a largely Romanesque church, but beneath its yellow stone and red brick it keeps traces of fifteen centuries of history.
Outside, the...
The Arco dei Gavi is a Roman arch in Verona, next to Castelvecchio, among the few honorary arches of antiquity built for a private family and not for an emperor. It was erected around the middle of the first century to celebrate the gens...
The church of San Pietro Incarnario looks out from the top of a tall flight of steps onto the start of Stradone San Fermo, in the center of Verona: outside, a sober neoclassical facade; underneath, the remains of a church built before...
The Museo Africano di Verona (African Museum) is the Comboni Missionaries' museum devoted to the peoples and cultures of Africa: musical instruments, games, work tools and everyday objects that have arrived from the missions over more than a...
The Palazzo del Capitanio, also called Palazzo di Cansignorio, looks onto Piazza dei Signori, Verona's drawing room, with its brick tower and inner courtyard. It was the fortified palace of the Scaligeri and later the home of the Venetian...