Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Verona, Italy

Forte Biondella, originally called Werk Biondella, is a fortification located on the hills north-east of Verona, part of the complex city defensive system and more particularly of the sector of hill forts and advanced plain forts, put in place between 1837 and 1843. The fortified structure was built in 1838 and the works were directed by the director of the Imperial Royal Office of Fortifications of Verona, the German major general Franz von Scholl.

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The XXII counterscarp battery, originally called Kontrescarpe-Batterie n. XXII, is a fortification located along the magisterial walls of Verona, on the left of the Adige.

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The Rondella di Santa Toscana is a bulwark located along the magisterial walls of Verona, on the left of the Adige, designed by Teodoro Trivulzio.

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Santi Nazaro e Celso is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church on the street that leads to the Porta Vescovo, in the Veronetta quartiere of Verona.

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Palazzo Giusti is a civil building located on the corner of Via Mazzini and Via Scala in Verona. It was built in the second half of the fifteenth century on commission from the Giusti family and is characterized by a mixture of late Gothic and Renaissance styles. A substantial portion, however, became part of Palazzo Sambonifacio and was completely renovated in the eighteenth century to a design by Adriano Cristofali.

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Santa Maria in Organo is a Roman Catholic church in Verona, Northern Italy.

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The sculpture The Barbed Wire Thorn is a bronze work of the twenty-first century located in Piazza Isolo in Verona.

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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.

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The Teatro Nuovo, in addition to being one of the main Italian theaters, is also the second opera house in Verona and the Veneto region. It is mainly used for prose performances, and is used less and less for musical works or conferences.

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The Scavi Scaligeri international photography center is an underground exhibition space that was created within an archaeological site that came to light between 1981 and 1983, in which photographic exhibitions were hosted since 1996, as well as thematic workshops, educational itineraries, photography courses, shows and readings. The exhibition activities were suspended on 11 May 2015 to allow the restoration of the Palazzo del Capitanio; In the meantime, the promotion of photography continues within the other city museums, waiting for the reopening of the center.

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Santa Maria Antica is a Roman Catholic church in Verona, Italy. The current church is Romanesque in style and dates to 1185, rebuilt after the earthquake of 1117 destroyed the original building that dated back to the end of the period of Lombard domination in the 7th century. The only surviving remains of the 7th-century building is a fragment of black and white mosaic floor.

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The Scaliger Tombs is a group of five Gothic funerary monuments in Verona, Italy, celebrating the Scaliger family, who ruled in Verona from the 13th to the late 14th century.

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Piazza dei Signori is a city square in Verona, Italy.

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The Loggia del Consiglio, also known as the Loggia di Fra Giocondo from the name of the humanist friar Giovanni Giocondo, who for a long time was believed to be the designer of the building, is a significant episode in Veronese architecture of the second half of the fifteenth century. The loggia, which is located in Piazza dei Signori, in the heart of Verona, was a representative building commissioned by the leaders of the Municipality for the sessions of the Fatherland Council, and is currently the seat of the offices of the Province of Verona.

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The Mazzanti houses are a group of terraced buildings that overlook the north-east side of Piazza delle Erbe in Verona, characterized by facades frescoed in the sixteenth century by Alberto Cavalli, a pupil of the most famous Renaissance architect and painter Giulio Romano.

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The Lion of Saint Mark, representing Mark the Evangelist, pictured in the form of a winged lion, is an aspect of the Tetramorph. On the pinnacle of St Mark's Cathedral he is depicted as holding a Bible, and surmounting a golden lion which is the symbol of the city of Venice and formerly of the Venetian Republic.

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The Torre dei Lamberti is an 84 m high tower in Verona, northern Italy.

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Piazza delle Erbe is a square in Verona, northern Italy. It was once the town's forum during the time of the Roman Empire.

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The Gardello Tower is a medieval structure located in Verona, near the central Piazza delle Erbe.

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The Capitolium of Verona was a complex that was part of the area of the Forum of the Roman city, corresponding to today's Piazza delle Erbe. Parts of the cryptoporticus are visible and can be visited under the loggia of Corte Sgarzerie, in the crypt of the church of San Benedetto al Monte and under Palazzo Maffei.

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The church of San Giovanni in Foro in Verona, is located on Corso Magenta, near the Piazza Erbe, the site of the ancient Roman Forum on Corso Porta Borsari. A church at this site was gravely damaged during the fire that swept medieval Verona in 1172. During restorations in the early 1900s, it was found that Roman walls had been incorporated into the external walls of the church. The base of the bell-tower dates from the 14th century. The renaissance portal of the church was sculpted by Gerolamo Giolfino with statues of Saints John the Evangelist, Peter, and John the Baptist. The fresco in the niche depicting St John was completed by Nicola Giolfino. The 3 baroque bells are rung with the Veronese bellringing art.

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The church of Sant'Eufemia is a Catholic place of worship located in the heart of Verona's historic center. It straddles an ancient Roman cardo, where a church building probably already existed in the 6th century. The foundation of the present church is owed to the Della Scala family, who brought Augustinian hermit monks to Verona in 1262 so that they could be closer to the community and granted them permission to build a monastery, located at the time in the Capitani quarter of the Scaliger city. Through bequests and donations, particularly that of Alberto della Scala, the building could be consecrated in 1331 by the bishop of Verona Nicolò. The building activity, however, did not end, and in the following years the monastery's rooms continued to be expanded in order to accommodate the increasing number of monks who arrived there attracted by the great prestige the community boasted. A permit granted by Mastino II della Scala in 1340 made it possible to further enlarge the church by building the vast apse that still distinguishes it today. From the end of the fourteenth century work continued on the various chapels and minor altars.

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The church of Santa Maria della Scala is a Catholic place of worship located in the historic center of Verona, a few steps from Via Mazzini; it is part of the diocese of Verona.

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The synagogue of Verona is a Jewish place of worship located in the heart of the historic center of Verona, not far from Piazza delle Erbe, in the area where the ancient ghetto of Verona was located.

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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.

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