tour de italy - Verona

in order to escape from the thousands of tourists at venice, dave and i decided to make a trip to Verona...

Verona is a city and provincial capital in Veneto, Northern Italy. The ancient town and the center of the modern city are in a loop of the Adige River near Lake Garda. Because of this position, the areas saw regular floodings until 1956, when the Mori-Torbole tunnel was constructed, providing 500 cubic meters of discharge from the Adige river to the Lake Garda in case of flood danger. The tunnel reduced the risk of floodings from once every seventy years to once every two centuries.

enough of the history, just make a guess, what is Verona famous for?? hint...

yuppie, people usually make a day trip to this little town famous for the home town of Romeo & Juliet and the Casa Di Giulietta or more commonly known as Juliet's Balcony, whereby Juliet used to meet up with Romeo secretly... and yes, we did try to catch a view of this famous place... and interestingly, the entire corridor leading to the house is defected with love notes, and chewing gum... yes, chewing gums ^_^

and see the number of Juliet-wannabes on the balcony... and the statue of Juliet... and people seem to like grabbing her right breast, which explains why one side seems more worn out than the other... i think there might be a legend behind this action...

the Arena... doesn't it look like the Colosseum of Rome? let's do a comparison... (the colosseum is the picture below)

the Museo Castelvecchio...

the Piazza Erbe & Piazza dei Signori...

view from the P.Te Pietra... it's the bridge that leads to the other side of the river Fiume Adige to the Castel San Pietro...

on top of the Teatro Romano which overlooks the entire city of Verona...