Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Verona, Italy

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 7.4 km
Ascend 187 m
Descend 187 m

Experience Verona in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in VeronaIndividual Sights in Verona

Sight 1: 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 2: 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)

89 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: 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)

233 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa di San Zeno in Oratorio

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Chiesa di San Zeno in OratorioThis 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 Zeno in Oratorio, also known as the church of San Zenetto, is a Catholic place of worship located in the district of San Zeno in Verona, a few steps from Castelvecchio; it is part of the diocese of Verona.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Zeno in Oratorio (IT)

435 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Don Giuseppe Chiot

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Giuseppe Chiot was an Italian priest.

Wikipedia: Giuseppe Chiot (IT)

23 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 6: Carcere degli Scalzi

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Carcere degli Scalzi

The Scalzi prison was a convent of the Order of Discalced Carmelites adjacent to the church of the Scalzi in Verona, built between 1666 and 1750, suppressed in 1806 by Napoleonic decree and used as a prison from 1883 to 1945.

Wikipedia: Carcere degli Scalzi (IT)

266 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Teatro Ristori

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The Teatro Ristori is a theatre in the city of Verona, with a capacity of 496 seats, inaugurated in 1844 and reopened in 2011 after a long restoration work.

Wikipedia: Teatro Ristori (IT), Website

409 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Teatro Filarmonico

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The Teatro Filarmonico is the main opera theater in Verona, Italy, and is one of the leading opera houses in Europe. The Teatro Filarmonico is property of the Accademia Filarmonica di Verona. Having been built in 1716, and later rebuilt after a fire of January 21, 1749, and again after the allied bombing of February 23, 1945.

Wikipedia: Teatro Filarmonico (EN)

257 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: 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

136 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Arco dei Gavi

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Arco dei GaviThis 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 Arco dei Gavi is an ancient structure in Verona, northern Italy, situated at the beginning of the Via Postumia, just outside the Roman walls of the city. Built to celebrate the gens Gavia, a noble Roman family who had their hometown in Verona, the Arco dei Gavi is a very rare example of a privately funded monumental Roman arch.

Wikipedia: Arco dei Gavi, Verona (EN)

296 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: 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)

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: 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)

451 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 13: Chiesa di San Giovanni in Foro

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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.

Wikipedia: San Giovanni in Foro, Verona (EN)

103 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Area archeologica di Corte Sgarzarie

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Area archeologica di Corte Sgarzarie

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

Wikipedia: Capitolium (Verona) (IT)

94 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Torre del Gardello

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

Wikipedia: Torre del Gardello (IT)

234 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Sinagoga di Verona

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Sinagoga di Verona Kent Wang / CC BY-SA 2.0

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.

Wikipedia: Sinagoga di Verona (IT)

115 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Scala

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Chiesa di Santa Maria della ScalaThis 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 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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Scala (Verona) (IT)

249 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: 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

260 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 19: Case Mazzanti

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

Wikipedia: Case Mazzanti (IT)

104 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Loggia di Frà Giocondo

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Loggia di Frà GiocondoThis 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 Loggia del Consiglio, also known as the Loggia di Fra Giocondo from the name of the humanist friar Giovanni Giocondo, who was long believed to be the designer of the building, is a significant episode of 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 wanted by the leaders of the Municipality for the sessions of the National Council, and is currently home to the offices of the Province of Verona.

Wikipedia: Loggia del Consiglio (IT)

134 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Centro Internazionale di fotografia Scavi Scaligeri

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Centro Internazionale di fotografia Scavi ScaligeriThis 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 Scavi Scaligeri International Center of Photography is an underground exhibition space that was built within an archaeological site that came to light between 1981 and 1983, in which photographic exhibitions have been 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, while waiting for the reopening of the center.

Wikipedia: Centro internazionale di fotografia Scavi Scaligeri (IT), Website

115 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 22: Arche Scaligere

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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.

Wikipedia: Scaliger Tombs (EN)

234 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 23: Chiesa di Sant'Anastasia

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The chiesa di Sant'Anastasia, or the Basilica of Saint Anastasia is a church built by the Dominican Order in Verona, northern Italy. In Gothic style, it is the largest church in the city, located in its most ancient district, near the Ponte Pietra.

Wikipedia: Sant'Anastasia, Verona (EN), Website

218 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 24: Arena Museum Opera

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Arena Museum OperaThis 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

AMO or Arena MuseOpera, is a museum in Verona dedicated to opera and located in Palazzo Forti.

Wikipedia: AMO (museo) (IT), Website

248 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 25: Palazzo Miniscalchi Erizzo

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Palazzo Miniscalchi ErizzoThis 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

Palazzo Miniscalchi Erizzo is a civil building located in the heart of the historic center of Verona, located on the corner of Via San Mammaso, along which the medieval part of the building stands, and Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, where the courtyard of honor and the nineteenth-century extension opens. Since 1990 the building has been open to the public and transformed into a house-museum, having the name of Miniscalchi-Erizzo Museum Foundation.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Miniscalchi-Erizzo (IT), Website

408 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 26: Chiesa di Sant'Elena

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The church of Sant'Elena, formerly the church of Saints Giorgio and Zeno, is a Catholic place of worship located in the heart of the historic center of Verona, adjacent to the Cathedral; it is part of the diocese of Verona.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Elena (Verona) (IT)

305 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 27: Battistero di San Giovanni in Fonte

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Battistero di San Giovanni in Fonte

The baptistery of San Giovanni in Fonte, also simply called the church of San Giovanni in Fonte, is a Catholic place of worship located in the heart of the historic center of Verona, adjacent to the Cathedral; it is part of the diocese of Verona.

Wikipedia: Battistero di San Giovanni in Fonte (Verona) (IT)

624 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 28: Castel San Pietro

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The tax barracks of Castel San Pietro or more simply Castel San Pietro, originally called Aerarialcasernen Castel San Pietro, is a military building located on the hill of San Pietro in Verona, in an elevated point and characterized by a wide panoramic view of the city of Verona, and for this reason a privileged destination for tourists and Veronese who can reach the square in front of the castle also via the funicular of Castel San Pietro. The building was designed by the Austrian k.k. Genie-Direktion Verona stationed in the city and built between 1852 and 1858, when the remains of the curtain wall of the pre-existing castle, built at the end of the fourteenth century, were also restored.

Wikipedia: Castel San Pietro (Verona) (IT)

808 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 29: Chiesa di San Giovanni in Valle

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San Giovanni in Valle is a Romanesque-style, Catholic church located on the street of the same name in Verona, region of Veneto, Italy.

Wikipedia: Church of San Giovanni in Valle (EN)

87 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 30: Museo africano

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The African Museum of Verona is an anthropological museum dedicated to the peoples and cultures of Africa. It was created, and is still managed, by the Comboni Missionaries, and exhibits material from the missions. In addition to the fixed exhibitions, the Museum offers a library and film library service, and hosts events and meetings on themes related to African peoples.

Wikipedia: Museo africano di Verona (IT), Website

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