The origins of the Church of Santa Maria in Organo in Verona are lost in time and date back to the Lombard age, between the sixth and seventh centuries AD. Rapidly destroyed and rebuilt after the earthquake of 1117, was rebuilt at the turn of ’500 by Benedictine monks who had been entrusted in 1444 [read more ...]
The Palazzo del Podestà Cangrande I della Scala, shared the power with his brother Alboin in 1308, already in 1311 resided in his new palace of Santa Maria Antica, which is the actual building of the Provincial Administration, at the corner of the Piazza dei Signori with Arche Scaligere . We had moved from the [read more ...]
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young “star-cross’d lovers” whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare’s most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers. The play, set in Verona, begins with a street brawl between Montague and Capulet supporters who [read more ...]
The Christmas Star in Piazza Bra in Verona. The city has always been a meeting point for culture and traditions are changing and as lights, sounds and colors of Christmas. Illuminated by hundreds of lights that create an effect like the Champs Elysees in Paris. Going through all the streets of Old Town and arriving [read more ...]
Between Piazza Erbe and the Piazza dei Signori is that for centuries has been called Arco della Costa, built in about 1470. Hanging under the arch, a curved spine, very similar to that of Almenno in Bergamo. For some, the remains of a whale, for others the remains of an ancient dragon. The arch of [read more ...]
