Verona knows perfectly well wherefore it is popular: a history going back to the Romans, a position that made it a prize in European and Italian power struggles, and some of the finest Roman, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance architecture you’ll find anywhere on the peninsula. But ask anyone apart from a veronese about the city and what’s the answer? Romeo and Juliet. So, yes, there’s a balcony too.
[Verona guide]