A view of Verona, known as the city of Juliet and Romeo, rich in art, history and culture. Noteworthy is the Ponte Pietra, the oldest bridge in town over the Adige River, the only one remaining from the Roman era. After surviving several floods, the bridge was blown up during World War II but was later rebuilt, recomposing the stones recovered from the riverbed, by anastylosis, a restoration technique with which the original pieces of a destroyed building are put back together, element by element. In Verona, Dante Alighieri spent, starting in 1303, seven years of his life, a guest of Bartolomeo della Scala, and dedicated the Paradiso, the last canticle of his Comedy, to Cangrande della Scala, lord of the city at the beginning of the 14th century. One of our tours is dedicated to the places that accompanied the "Supreme Poet" in those years in Verona: did you know that Dante was the first writer to use, in a verse of Purgatory, the names of the Montecchi and Capuleti families? #discoverItaly #travel #Verona #DanteAlighieri
