Why Verona Is Much More Than Romeo and Juliet

 

Verona spends most of her life in the shadow of a balcony. It is the city of love of many tourists, the city of star-crossed lovers where they breathe love in the air just as it is the air in the soft Verona sun. However, take longer than an afternoon in this city and you soon get to discover that the identity of Verona is much larger than Shakespeare in his tragic drama.

 The city is revealed at a slow pace, almost book-like with layers that one is only able to find out when they take their time. Stroll around Piazza delle Erbe early in the morning and the market stalls are starting to get things set up and the smell of fresh fruit mixes with the smell of espresso floating out of the cafes. The chatter of locals is by no means done with a view to amuse tourists but is merely the way Verona breathes the way it lives and the way it speaks: genuine and inhabited.


Then there is the Arena, an artwork that is over two millennia old and comes before Shakespeare. Seated on its old treads, you can feel as though you were treading upon history. Verona, come summer evenings, when the opera echoes with the Opera with mighty, high notes, is not a storyteller, it is a performer of the stories. It reminds you that its cultural heartbeat is powerful, dramatic and eternal.

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 In addition to the landmarks, what is the most attractive part of Verona is its quiet places. Passing the Ponte Pietra cross to the winding lanes leading to the upwards attempts of Castel San Pietro. Below the city spreads--tiles and towers, and the easy swell of the Adige River, which brings to your mind that this has been a place of love and habitation.

 But the rhythm of Verona is the thing that makes it stand out. Life is lived very considerably here. You end up in the jangling of glasses over aperitivo, in the jabbing laughter of the little side streets, in the manner in which the inhabitants of this place enjoy what they are doing rather than getting through it. Verona does not require you to be an observer, it calls you to be one of the participants, at least temporarily.

 And therefore even though the balcony of Juliet makes you get to Verona, the depth, the culture, and the silent beauty of the city keeps you. Ultimately, Verona is not a love story only but a puzzle filled with many and it takes time to realize it.

 

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