Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Verona, Italy

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 6.5 km
Ascend 98 m
Descend 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 Verona

Sight 1: San Tomaso Cantuariense

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San Tomaso CantuarienseThis Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. / CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Wikipedia: San Tomaso Becket, Verona (EN)

890 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 2: Chiesa dei Padri Filippini

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Chiesa dei Padri FilippiniThis Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. / CC BY-SA 4.0

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)

467 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Porta Leoni

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Porta LeoniThis Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. / CC BY-SA 4.0

Porta Leoni is an ancient Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy.

Wikipedia: Porta Leoni (EN)

221 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Juliet's House

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Juliet's HouseThis Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. / CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Wikipedia: Casa di Giulietta (IT), Website

182 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Herbs Square

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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.

Wikipedia: Piazza delle Erbe, Verona (EN)

571 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 6: Saint Apostles' Church

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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.

Wikipedia: Santi Apostoli, Verona (EN)

103 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Palazzo Bevilacqua

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110 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Chiesa di San Lorenzo

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Chiesa di San Lorenzo

San Lorenzo is a Romanesque style, Roman Catholic church on Corso Cavour in central Verona, region of Veneto, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Lorenzo, Verona (EN)

216 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Palazzo Canossa

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Palazzo Canossa is a palace in Verona, northern Italy.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Canossa, Verona (EN)

159 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Museo di Castelvecchio

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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.

Wikipedia: Castelvecchio Museum (EN), Website

82 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Castelvecchio

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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.

Wikipedia: Castelvecchio (Verona) (EN)

388 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 12: Arsenale Austriaco

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Arsenale AustriacoThis Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. / CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Wikipedia: Arsenale Franz Josef I (IT)

299 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Ponte Scaligero

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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.

Wikipedia: Castelvecchio Bridge (EN)

513 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 14: Maffei Museum

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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.

Wikipedia: Museo lapidario maffeiano (IT), Website

90 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Palazzo della Gran Guardia

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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.

Wikipedia: Gran Guardia (IT)

384 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 16: Chiesa di San Nicolò

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Chiesa di San NicolòThis Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. / CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Nicolò (Verona) (IT)

272 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Area archeologica di via San Cosimo

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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.

Wikipedia: Area archeologica di via San Cosimo (IT)

863 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 18: Chiesa della Santissima Trinità in Monte Oliveto

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The Church of the Santissima Trinità is a Romanesque style, Roman Catholic church in Verona, region of Veneto, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santissima Trinità, Verona (EN)

646 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 19: Porta Nuova

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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."

Wikipedia: Porta Nuova (Verona) (EN)

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