Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Verona, Italy
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6.5 km
90 m
Explore Verona in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in VeronaIndividual Sights in VeronaSight 1: San Tomaso Cantuariense
The church of San Tomaso Becket, commonly known as the church of San Tomaso Cantuariense, is a church situated in the central Verona, near the Ponte Nuovo del Popolo.
Sight 2: Chiesa dei Padri Filippini
The church of San Fermo Minore di Brà, better known as the church of the Filippini, is a place of Catholic worship located in the heart of the historic center of Verona; it is a parish church belonging to the Vicariate of Verona Centro in the diocese of the same name.
Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Fermo e Rustico dei Filippini (IT)
Sight 3: Porta Leoni
Book Ticket*Porta Leoni is an ancient Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy.
Sight 4: Juliet's House
Juliet's House is a medieval civil building located in Via Cappello in Verona, a short distance from the central Piazza delle Erbe. It is one of the Shakespearean places in Verona, together with Juliet's tomb and Romeo's house, linked to the universal and positive ideal of love and for this reason it has become the destination of a secular and popular pilgrimage, so much so that it is the most visited monument in the city.
Sight 5: Herbs Square
Book Ticket*Piazza delle Erbe is a square in Verona, northern Italy. It was once the town's forum during the time of the Roman Empire.
Sight 6: Saint Apostles' Church
Santi Apostoli, and the adjacent Romanesque style, small church (chiesetta) or chapel of the Sante Teuteria e Tosca, is an ancient Roman Catholic church in front of a piazza off Corso Cavour, in central Verona, region of Veneto, Italy.
Sight 7: Palazzo Bevilacqua
Sight 8: Chiesa di San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo is a Romanesque style, Roman Catholic church on Corso Cavour in central Verona, region of Veneto, Italy.
Sight 9: Palazzo Canossa
Palazzo Canossa is a palace in Verona, northern Italy.
Sight 10: Museo di Castelvecchio
Castelvecchio Museum is a museum in Verona, northern Italy, located in the eponymous medieval castle. Restoration by the architect Carlo Scarpa between 1959 and 1973 has enhanced the appearance of the building and exhibits. Scarpa's architectural style is visible in the details for doorways, staircases, furnishings, and even fixtures designed to hold a specific piece of artwork. The renovation carefully balanced new and old, revealing the history of the original building where appropriate. Unusual at the time, this approach has now become a common approach to renovation.
Sight 11: Castelvecchio
Book Ticket*Castelvecchio is a castle in Verona, northern Italy. It is the most important military construction of the Scaliger dynasty that ruled the city in the Middle Ages.
Sight 12: Arsenale Austriaco
The Campagnola artillery arsenal, originally called the Franz Josef I artillery arsenal but better known as the Verona arsenal or the Austrian arsenal of Verona, is a military establishment built by the Austrian Empire in Verona, now located in the Borgo Trento district. The preliminary studies and the elaboration of the project, commissioned by Field Marshal Josef Radetzky, were held in 1854 with the choice of the executive project by Major Conrad Petrasch, director of the Genie-Direktion of Verona. The construction of the arsenal was completed in 1861 according to the reduced plan of 1859.
Sight 13: Ponte Scaligero
The Castel Vecchio Bridge or Scaliger Bridge is a fortified bridge in Verona, northern Italy, over the Adige River. The segmental arch bridge featured the world's largest span at the time of its construction.
Sight 14: Maffei Museum
The Maffeiano lapidary museum, founded in the first half of the eighteenth century by the Veronese scholar Scipione Maffei, is one of the oldest public museums in Europe, located in the heart of the historic center of Verona, within the municipal walls, overlooking Piazza Bra and a few steps from the Arena di Verona.
Sight 15: Palazzo della Gran Guardia
The Gran Guardia is a civil building that delimits the southern side of Piazza Bra in Verona, whose construction began in the seventeenth century and was completed, after a long pause, only in 1853. With its size and monumentality, it is able to compare itself with the Arena, which is located a few tens of meters away, beyond the nineteenth-century Bra gardens.
Sight 16: Chiesa di San Nicolò
The church of San Nicolò all'Arena is a place of Catholic worship located in the heart of the historic center of Verona, behind the Roman amphitheater; it is a parish church belonging to the Vicariate of Verona Centro in the diocese of the same name.
Sight 17: Area archeologica di via San Cosimo
The archaeological area of via San Cosimo is located in via San Cosimo 3 in Verona, near the ancient Roman walls of the city and below the courtyard of the Institute of the Sisters Daughters of Jesus.
Sight 18: Chiesa della Santissima Trinità in Monte Oliveto
The Church of the Santissima Trinità is a Romanesque style, Roman Catholic church in Verona, region of Veneto, Italy.
Sight 19: Porta Nuova
Porta Nuova is a gateway to the historic center of Verona, built between 1532 and 1540. It was designed by architect Michele Sanmicheli. Giorgio Vasari said of the gateway in Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori "never before any other work of more grandeur or better design."
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