It's Sunday morning and a beautiful sunny day. I take my bike and head down along the Adige River. This is a little ritual shared by thousands of people from Verona. Every Sunday, in fact, the stretch along the river, or the Lunga…

For centuries, the Republic of Venice ruled the seas. But one of its greatest legacies, and a distinctive feature of the region's landscape today, is the collection of nearly five thousand Venetian villas scattered over its mainla…

In 2000 UNESCO enrolled Verona as a World Heritage City not only for the beauty of its architecture over two millennia of history but also because it "represents par excellence the concept of a fortified city characteristic of Eur…