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VERONA City guide

Verona has a lot to thank William Shakespeare for. Not only did he set two of his most famous plays here, forever associating it with the phrase ‘fair Verona’ despite never setting foot on Italian soil, but he also sparked an obsession that still draws millions of visitors to this underrated city every year.

They flock here in search of the ‘real’ Romeo and Juliet, captivated by theories that the story was based on two feuding families from the

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