Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Verona, Italy

The Basilica di San Zeno is a minor basilica of Verona, northern Italy constructed between 967 and 1398 AD. Its fame rests partly on its Romanesque architecture and partly upon the tradition that its crypt was the place of the marriage of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It stands adjacent to a Benedictine abbey, both dedicated to St Zeno of Verona.

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San Procolo is a Paleo-Christian, Roman Catholic small temple standing adjacent to the Basilica di San Zeno in central Verona, region of Veneto, Italy.

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San Bernardino is a church in Verona, northern Italy. The church, in Gothic style, was built from 1451 to 1466.

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Giuseppe Chiot was an Italian priest.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Palazzo Canossa is a palace in Verona, northern Italy.

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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.

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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.

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

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The Canonical Museum is located in the architectural complex of the Cathedral of Verona and can be accessed from Piazza Duomo. It contains collections of archaeological materials from pre-existing Roman buildings and early Christian basilicas, sacred furnishings and valuable sculptures and paintings dating from the twelfth to the nineteenth century.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The sculpture The Spino of the Barbed Wire is a bronze work of the XXI century that is 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 Civic Museum of Natural History is a museum in Verona that has been housed since 1833 in Palazzo Pompei, Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 9. It collects about 3 million artifacts.

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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 by the Giusti family and is characterized by a mixture of late Gothic and Renaissance styles. A substantial portion, however, has become part of Palazzo Sambonifacio and was completely renovated in the eighteenth century to a design by Adriano Cristofali.

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