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IS THERE ANYTHING MORE ROMANTIC THAN LOSING YOURSELF IN VERONA?
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Five ways to keep cool in Verona on the hottest days
In summer Verona can be particularly hot. The thermometer can top 35 degrees and, worse, the baking hot wind coming from Africa is full of moisture and the air becomes unbearably muggy. When that happens, the Veronese try to escap…
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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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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…