{"id":34055,"date":"2023-08-10T16:53:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=34055"},"modified":"2023-08-10T16:53:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:53:35","slug":"verona-italy-%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%b9-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=34055","title":{"rendered":"Verona, Italy \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 8th August 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled: 250 kms from Verona to Gorizia in Slovenia \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited: Verona \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: Sosta Gorizia, \u20ac10, N45.91770, E13.54940\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget: 78 days @ \u20ac86 per day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arriving in Verona its traffic chaos, Italian style. Having made our way into the city we have a left turn and 200 metres to the sosta, to find a Policeman is standing in the middle of the road with a stick with what looks like a bull\u2019s eye disc. He steps in front of the Hymer in an apparent suicide attempt. Waving frantically he forces us to find another way to the sosta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A kilometre of left turns later we turn into the sosta and we still have no idea what the problem was as he\u2019s only 200 metres away still waving his stick at motorhomes attempting to turn as we did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Having luckily found a spot in the shade, we relax for an hour and go for a walk. We find a lovely little family supermarket and a fancy cafe\/bakery just down the street. A little further on we stumble upon a little bar run by someone\u2019s Grandmother. Using the key words of beer and vino we happily have a bowl of chips and two large drinks for \u20ac6. As Pam polished of the last of the chips, Gran appeared with another bowl of chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Verona, our neighbours and friends Dave and Britt are regular visitors to Verona. Particularly to see performances at the Roman Theatre. Next morning we walk off to explore Verona for ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the 3rd century BC Verona has been an important Roman standing city. Our guide book tells it\u2019s ancient gates and forum still stand as does its grand Roman arena which is still in use today as one of the world great opera venues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We check the ticket office the next opera season starts in a couple of days and we could have got tickets (nose bleed) but we would have to cool our heals for two days and we have other fish to fry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Verona tends to stand out from many of the other Italian cities we have visited. It\u2019s generally very clean and tidy and no graffiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shakespeare placed Romeo and Juliet here in Verona. Here in the Casa di Giuletta we can look up at the balcony where love was proclaimed. It\u2019s a bit of a tourist trap but pretty all the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictured below the Torre del Lamberti, circa 12th century. It was struck by lightning in 1403 destroying the top, but they rebuilt it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pictured below some views of the Piazza del Erbe. Everywhere you look there\u2019s something interesting to see in this old Roman trading forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Basilica di Sant\u2019Anastasia is pictured below. It the largest and most lavishly decorated church in Verona, it dates to the 13th century. The ceiling decoration through the nave and aisles are stunning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are 12 chapels built into the surrounds, some examples pictured below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We seperate ourselves from the crowds and walk back following the River Adige. Find more ancient gates and walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once safely back at the sosta we get the Hymer ready for the road. It\u2019s a 3 hour late afternoon drive on the autostrade to the Slovenian border and the sosta at Gorizia. The number of trucks rolling along at 90 kph in both directions is staggering. Although the traffic reduces substantially once the autostrade divides, Austria and Czechia to the left and Slovenian and Hungary to the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sosta at Gorizia looks new, its well away from the autostrade ensuring a restful evening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael + Pam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: 8th August 2023 Travelled: 250 kms from Verona to Gorizia in Slovenia \u00a0 Visited: Verona \u00a0 Stayed: Sosta Gorizia, \u20ac10, N45.91770, E13.54940\u00a0\u00a0 Budget: 78 days @ \u20ac86 per day Arriving in Verona its traffic chaos, Italian style. Having made our way into the city we have a left turn and 200 metres to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":34079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[161],"class_list":{"0":"post-34055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-italian-cities","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34055"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34082,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34055\/revisions\/34082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}