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IS THERE ANYTHING MORE ROMANTIC THAN LOSING YOURSELF IN VERONA?
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Verona, city of horses
Legend has it that, just after the end of the war in 489 AD between Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, and the Roman general Odoacer, the starving people of Verona were granted exceptional permission to eat the many horse carcasse…
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An alternative weekend discovering new venues in Verona
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of receiving a visitor from abroad, a friend who I hadn’t seen in a while. I had hosted him a few times in Verona, so there wasn’t much left for me to show him in terms of monuments, museums, ty…
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When Verona was the frontier of the Austrian Empire
Roman, medieval, Venetian and Renaissance city. All these influences help make the centre of Verona a UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Yet it has been the more recent Austrian heritage which has given the city today’s definitive layo…