VERONA INTRODUCTION, Introduction

Hi, my name’s Rick, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: Verona.

Verona is one of the most renowned Italian cities for two reasons: first, it’s the setting for William Shakespeare’s famous love story, Romeo and Juliet, and second, for its most famous monument, the Arena, which continues to host fabulous spectacles 2000 years after it was built.

There’s a lot more to Verona than this. Although it’s not a large city, it boasts an enviable number of monuments and masterpieces from all periods of history.

Inhabited since the Stone Age, Verona has always been important due to its strategic position.

In Roman times, it was home to the legions entrusted with defending central Italy, and the population grew to over 25,000: this is why the arena is so large, since it was designed to hold all of them!

There are numerous Roman monuments to be seen in Verona, such as the Roman Theater, the Stone Wall Bridge, Ponte dei Leoni bridge and Porta Borsari....