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Lamberti Towers - the portico
of the Loggia del Consiglio
catches the eye; it is here where 16th-Century political life
took place, while the Palazzo
di Cansignorio and Palazzo
del Comune (or della Ragione)
were the seats of military, judicial and administrative power.
Nearby lie the Scaliger Arches,
in the same-named piazza, and
some of the most suggestive views of the city, including
glimpses of the monumental
tombs of the Lords of Verona.
The entire city of Verona is
truly spectacular, and the same
goes for the churches. Some
of the most important are the
Adige; it symbolizes the Me- City Museum of Art.
Gothic Church of St. Anastasia,
dieval power of the Scaliger
Family, to whom the realization The palazzi of Verona narrate the Church of San Fermo Magof the crenellated Scaliger Bri- its long history of wealth and giore (formed by two buildings stacked one on top of the
dge is attributed. Castelvec- power.
other), and the Renaissance
chio, edified in the mid-1300s,
was the abode of the Cangran- In Piazza dei Signori - whi- Church of San Giorgio in Braide della Scala; today it is the ch sits under the dominating da.
Finally, the Verona of Shakespeare and the “star-crossed
lovers” is legend all over the
world, and lives indefinitely
through the places made famous in the play, Romeo and
Juliet. Yet the original literary
work was created by Luigi da
Porto, a writer from Vicenza, in
the 1500s; it eventually circulated around Europe, reaching
England. Thus it was the Bard
who rendered it the immortal
story that it is today, allowing
Verona to rest as one of the
most admired and visited places in the world.
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