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    A Guide to Verona: Five Walking Tours
    A Guide to Verona: Five Walking Tours
    A Guide to Verona: Five Walking Tours
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    A Guide to Verona: Five Walking Tours

    By P S Quick

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    The city of Verona is second only to Rome in the antiquities that can be seen. This book aims to give the tourist an opportunity to visit and enjoy not only the few major attractions that a guided tour usually includes, but also many of the other interesting sights that many people do not see.
    In addition to the famous amphitheatre, cathedral and sights linked to Romeo and Juliet, you will also visit the monumental gateways, beautiful bridges, castles, fortresses, palaces, gardens, graves, remains of Roman villas and other places that show the magnificence of Verona’s past.
    By providing five different walking routes and detailed information about each attraction passed it puts a visitor to Verona in charge of the time spent at any particular place rather than having to rush and keep up with a guide.
    With detailed instructions of how to get from one place to another, this book is the perfect way to experience the many wonderful things that Verona has to offer without having to join costly and rushed guided tours.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcorn Books
    Release dateJun 22, 2016
    ISBN9781785385414
    A Guide to Verona: Five Walking Tours

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      A Guide to Verona - P S Quick

      Pietro

      The First Tour

      Today’s walk begins at Porta Nuova City Gate and ends in the Piazza Brà that has a selection of restaurants and cafes where you can relax and watch the world go by at the end of your tour. If you are not staying near the Porta Nuova City Gate you can either make the pleasant walk from the Piazza Brà along the Corso Porta Nuova Road which takes about 9 minutes or take one of the buses 51, 52, 92 or 93 that leave from Piazza Brà every few minutes. Ensure you ask for the Porta Nuova City Gate and not the Porta Nuova railway station.

      Main Sights

      Porta Nuova

      Museo degli Affreschi

      Juliet’s Tomb

      Museo di Storia Naturale

      Chiesa San Fermo Maggiore

      Antique Porta Leoni

      Via Cappello

      Juliet’s house

      Teatro Nuovo

      Novona Square

      Romeo’s house

      Chiesa San Tomaso

      Giardino Giusti

      Piazza Brà

      Porta Nuova

      The Porta Nuova or New Gate was designed by the architect Michele Sanmicheli and built between 1532 and 1540 to replace the Scala Porta di Santa Croce in order to renew the defences in the southern part of the city. It was part of the original outer mediaeval city walls of Verona. The architect was also responsible for renovating the existing fortifications, building new walls with imposing towers and also the Porta Palio and the Porta San Zeno gates.

      This monument is the first that many people will see when arriving in Verona by train. The majestic stone gateway with Doric Pillars and rustic style is regarded as a great masterpiece of military architecture as well as a work of art. The original lion of Saint Mark near the top has now been replaced by a sculpture of two griffins which stand each side of the coat of arms.

      Recent excavations have exposed the bridge that allowed access to the structure over the original deep moat. During the Austrian occupation major changes were made to the building especially on the façade that faces towards the county. Walk around the structure to compare the differences on each side.

      Museo degli Affreschi e Tomba di Giulietta

      The Fresco Museum and Juliet’s tomb are located in the monastery of San Francesco. The monastery itself dates back to the thirteenth century when it was the only Franciscan monastery outside the city walls of Verona which is why it was considered to be the most likely place where the lovers were buried.

      After Shakespeare wrote his famous love story a real sarcophagus, made from red marble, was placed inside the monastery. It is said that the lid and remains inside were moved by the government to a secret location.

      The sarcophagus was moved into the vaults of the monastery in 1937 when a Hollywood film was made and this is where it can be seen today. Many people, including celebrities such as Napoleon’s wife, have continued to visit the monastery to view it.

      Today the monastery has been transformed into a museum. It holds a superb collection of frescos from the palaces of Verona. In the sixteenth century Verona was known as Urbs Picta which translates as the Painted City. Many houses had frescos and today some can still be seen on places such as the Mazzanti houses in the Piazza delle Erbe.

      In the vaults and the courtyard there are sculptures and amphorae dating from Roman times that were found during excavations in the area of the Adige River. There are also examples of both mediaeval and modern

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