Verona

June 25

Today, we traveled from Venice to Florence. On the way, we stopped in Verona, where Shakespeare's character Juliette was from. Her family, the Cappelli's were an actual family here in Verona. You can see the balcony made famous in the play, "Romeo and Juliette". Millions of Shakespeare fans come here and sign their name on the walls of the entrance into the courtyard over which the balcony overlooks. We also toured an ancient Roman arena, almost entirely intact for over 2000 years. THey now use it for concerts, operas, etc. We were careful to stay in shady areas, because the temperature was over 100 degrees!