It's a love story baby just yes .... or We're in Verona! On our way to Verona we stopped at the Olympic Theater by Palladio and Villa Rotunda. The Olympic theater is known for its set which has three different forced perspectives and Villa Rotunda was very influential for Thomas Jefferson when he found the University of Virginia. The coolest place we went to in Verona was a Scarpa Museum that was actually an old castle/fort that was renovated into a museum. Scarpa's approach for the design was quite clever; never allowing the new materials (concrete and steel) to come into contact with the brick from the old castle, a clear separation between the two. And last but not least we went to Juliet's House, obviously it's not
really her house since it is a fictional story but you would be surprised how many people actually second guessed whether or not that was a true story. Anyways there's not much to it, except for graffiti from star-crossed lovers and Juliet's statue. It is supposed to be good luck to touch Juliet's chest when you visit, but since it's only the most tragic love story of all time I refrained.
FROM VERONA (ITALY),
WITH LOVE GRACE
Olympic Theater
Villa Rotunda
Scarpa Museum
Pigeons
Stairs
Juliet's House
Juliet
Gelato
Wine