Verona ~ Bolzano ~ Dolomites

Verona is one of the richest and most prosperous cities in the North of Italy, when you get to Verona you can see this everywhere: streets are clean, people wear elegant (and expensive) clothes, restaurants and shops are chic and hotels are very comfortable (and expensive too!) There are also many very nice stores to buy very expensive Italian fashions. DF doesn’t include to many shopping tours… so we’ll just continue with the main tourist attractions. I selected 3 sites in Verona….this girl would have been shopping though!

Although the building is now used for operas and other cultural shows, its original use was (as you can imagine) crueler: the famous Gladiators fights. Oh….I had to hid under the covers when I watched The Gladiator!


Tower Lamberti is the highest tower in Verona, it’s 83 meters high. Its construction began in 1172 and it took several centuries to finish. The octagonal end of the tower still holds the old ‘Rengo’ and ‘Marangona’ bells.




As you’ll probably know Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet’s love story takes place in Verona. This city is not only the perfect place for this story to take place for its middle age ambient, there are also some real references here. The house you’re seeing is the "real" home of Juliet’s family (the Capuleti). DF will actually be going to this tourist attractions when Jess joins them later in the month.

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In keeping with rules of Playing for Pizza we are stopping by this Duomo in Bolzano today

A two hour train ride north from Verona, Bolzano is a provincial capital located in the Trentino- Alto Adige region of Italy. Noted as the “Gateway to the Dolomites”, Bolzano, gives way to the feeling of a village surrounded by orchards and vineyards. The Dolomites tower over the city in the distance, dwarfing everything below and reminding the residence and tourists of its distinctive beauty. They are always present. The streets are cobblestone; shutters adorn the windows in colours of blue, coral and yellow. Frescoes from years gone by adorn the walls of many of the current establishments, connecting the present with a rich historical past.