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Madonna House Hunting in Verona

The Material Girl eyes a 10 million euro flat in the city's historic center.

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Guide to the Arena di Verona Opera Festival and its 89th edition

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It has been a long wait for the opening night of the 89th Arena di Verona Opera Festival: but this June 17th, the famous Roman amphitheatre and icon of the city of Verona, will play host to the first night of a new production of La Traviata...

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Vinitaly Draws Wine Lovers to Verona

Oenologists are flocking to the city of Romeo and Juliet to raise a glass of wine.

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Summer film - Letters to Juliet

In Verona, home, of course, of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, a voluntary group of men and women answer over 5,000 letters a year addressed to Juliet. It is this group and a book of some of the collected letters that have inspired the film, “Letters to Juliet”.

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Love Art

The Mayor of Verona, Flavio Tosi, has given up his campaign to keep the Casa di Giulietta [Juliet’s House] supposedly the home of the Capulets in Shakespeare’s most famous love tragedy, free of graffiti...

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Mantegna masterpiece returning to Verona in original glory

One of the greatest works by Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna is to dazzle visitors once more following a two-year restoration.

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Soccer player to wed in Juliet's house

An Italian soccer player will kick off Verona's drive to woo the world's couples into tying the knot on the scene of Romeo and Juliet's most romantic encounter.

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Vinitaly opens with wine weathering global downturn

Italy's wine sector has not been immune to the global economic downturn but it has been able to the weather financial storm, Italian Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia said on Thursday.

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'Wed me in Verona' drive starts

The Italian city of Verona, home to literature's most famous lovers, is trying to woo the world's couples into tying the knot on the scene of Romeo and Juliet's most romantic encounter.

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Europe's oldest hippo mourned

Italy on Friday was mourning the death of Pippo, Europe's oldest hippopotamus, who spent 40 years as a children's favourite at a zoo near Verona.

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