Consorzio di Promozione e Commercializzazione Turistica VERONAVERONAand the surroundingsurroundingand the areaarea A guide to the city and Province of Verona TRAVEL DISTANCE BY Legend: MOTORWAY FROM VERONA TO: Trento km. 103 Fair Bolzano km. 157 Airport Vicenza km. 51 Venice km. 114 Lake Garda Brescia km. 68 Lessinia Milan km. 161 Bologna km. 142 Veronese Plain Florence km. 230 Soave Rome km. 460 Valpolicella Verona AFFI VERONA and the surrounding area A guide to the city and Province of Verona Verona Tuttintorno is proud to present the new edition of "Verona and the Surrounding Area - A Guide to the City and Province of Verona". The publication provides a general overview of the area's riches, and describes 30 fascinating itineraries to explore. The guide represents a collaborative effort between the Consortium and its members: travel agencies, hoteliers, restaurant owners, wineries, the Wine Road association, local government, transportation agencies, and tourist-sector service providers of every kind. The included itineraries offer a myriad of possibilities for enjoying the area's cultural riches, its nearby mountains, lake, and plain, getting and its world-famous enogastronomic traditions. Verona Tuttintorno, a consortium of businesses dedicated to promoting local tourism and the cultural, environmental, and enogastronomic to Verona patrimony of the City and Province of Verona, also offers up-to-date information and itinerary planning assistance for those wishing to make Verona and the surrounding area their next vacation destination. BY CAR BY TRAIN BY PLANE Enjoy Verona and the surrounding area!!! The A4 Motorway crosses the province Verona is served by the main train line The Valerio Catullo Airport, situated in of Verona from east to west. There are for northern Italy, the Milan-Venice line. Villafranca, just 12 kilometres from two city exits, Verona South and Verona The line offers frequent connections to Verona, is easily reached by Motorway North, in addition to exits located other cities in the Veneto (Venice, Padua, and from the city. The airport offers throughout the province at Soave, Vicenza) and Lombardy (Brescia, Milan) connections to various locations in central Sommacampagna and Peschiera (Lake regions. The city is also intersected by and southern Italy (Rome, Bari, Cagliari, Consorzio di Promozione e Garda). The A4 Motorway is also another important train line which Catania, Palermo) and to principal Commercializzazione Turistica intersected north to south by the A22 connects Rome to Trento, the Brenner European countries, including Germany Modena-Brennero Motorway, with exits Pass and northern Europe. The central (Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt), Largo Caldera, 11 - 37122 Verona - Tel. +39 045 8009461 - Fax +39 045 8013142 - www.veronaitaly.it - [email protected] at Verona Nord for the city and station is Verona Porta Nuova. France, England, The Netherlands, Spain Valpolicella district; at Nogarole Rocca For information: tel. +39 045 8902021 (Madrid, Barcelona), Belgium and Austria. Lessinia p. 10 Valpolicella p. 18 Lake Garda p. 26 for the Veronese plain; and at Affi for www.trenitalia.com Charter flights also connect Italy to Spain, Lake Garda and Mount Baldo. The exit Greece, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey, for the Fair is Verona Sud. Other main Russia, France, Mexico and Morocco. roads are the SS11 (a state highway)from Brescia or Vicenza, the SS62 from Mantova, and the SS12 from Trento or Modena. The Lessinia district can be reached from Verona along a secondary road for Grezzana-Bosco Chiesanuova. Verona p. 5 Soave p.14 Plain p. 22 2 3 Car park with Car park without attendant Roman walls Medieval Scaligera walls 1 Roman Amphitheater Renaissance walls 2 Juliet’s House 3 Castelvecchio museum Limited Traffic Zone 4 Lamberti Tower and Scaliger Tombs 5 International Photography Center 6 Palazzo Forti Modern Art Gallery 7 Church of S. Anastasia 8 Duomo complex 9 Roman bridge 10 Archaeological museum at the Roman theatre 11 Natural history museum 12 Church of S. Fermo 13 Maffeiano lapidary museum 14 Juliet’s tomb and Museum of frecoes 15 Civic library getting around 16 Basilica of S. Zeno 17 Church of S. Lorenzo the City BY CAR BY BUS BY TAXI Access to the historical center (a limited Tickets must be obtained before Radio taxis operate 24 hours a day. traffic zone) is permitted Monday-Friday boarding, and can be purchased at Tel: +39 045 532666. 24-hour service is from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; from 4-6 p.m.; and tobacconists and newsagents. A bus also provided by taxis at the train station from 8-10 p.m. Access is allowed on ticket costs 1.00 Euro and is valid on all (Tel: +39 045 8004528) and Piazza Brà Saturday, Sunday, and holidays from 10 routes for 60 minutes. A daily ticket is (Tel: +39 045 8030565). Other taxi stands a.m-1 p.m. Parking is permitted using also available for 3.50 Euro, and is valid can be found in Piazza Erbe (tel. +39 045 "Verona Park" pre-paid parking cards, on the entire metropolitan network. For 8030561), Piazzetta S. Giorgio (tel. +39 available at tobacconists and authorized information: Azienda Municipalizzata 045 8349510), Piazza S. Zeno (tel.+39 cafés (cost vaires from 1-1.50 euro, Trasporti (Municipal Transport Authority) 045 8349500), Borgo Trento Hospital (tel. depending on zone). Tel: +39 045 8871111 or [email protected] +39 045 8349511), Borgo Roma Hospital, Tourists staying in the Green Zone will The Veronese province can be reached Verona South and East exits, in Corso receive permits for unlimited transit and on the blue suburban buses. The bus Milano, and at the Catullo Airport. parking in appointed areas from their station is located in the main square of hotel or other lodging facility. the central train station. Tickets for these Free parking is located at the Stadium buses must also be purchased before (Stadio), Piazzale Guardini, via Frà boarding. For information: Azienda Giocondo, and Viale Colonnello Galiano. Provinciale Trasporti. Tel: +39 045 For other parking areas please consult: 8057911 or [email protected]. Enjoy a www.comune.verona.it/turismo/muove convenient and comfortable city tour rsi.htm aboard Romeo, a bus offering 90 minute audio tours (with headphones) in English, German, French, and Italian. The service operates from June to September. For information, please telephone +39 045 8401160 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. 4 > Verona a world heritage city > itineraries in Verona Roman Amphitheater/Arena Jiuliet’s balcony Basilica of San Zeno Pisanello’s Fresco “St. George & the Princess” Opera in the Arena Verona, >itinerariesChurch of S. Anastasia in Verona a World Heritage City Verona > half-day tours Verona is a city of many layers, where Juliet, Shakespeare's tragic heroine. The wide loop of the river that encloses GENERAL TOUR HIDDEN VERONA ARCHEOLOGICAL VERONA ancient Romans, medieval nobles, A short distance away, on the site of the the historical city center ends at a OF THE HISTORICAL CENTER Enjoy a half day, off the beaten track. Verona is steeped in archeological history, Venetian signori, Napoleon, and Austrian ancient Roman forum, you will find Piazza remarkably well-preserved medieval A general tour of the historical city center Begin at the 17th century Giardino Giusti, and there are many Roman monuments Hapsburgs, have woven a rich tapestry delle Erbe, now home to a local market castle, the Castelvecchio, a 14th century begins at the Arena and continues down magnificent green gardens, then visit the to admire throughout the city. Among of art, architecture, and history throughout and surrounded by buildings and towers work of the Scaligeri, and home to an quaint cobblestone streets towards nearby church of Santa Maria in Organo, these are the Arena (Roman its urban fabric. The city's great appeal dating from the 12th-17th centuries. The important local art museum. Further Juliet's famous balcony at the Casa di which contains marvellous intarsia work amphitheater) and the Roman city walls- lies in the fact that, from its historic center Madonna Verona, a fountain found in its down the river, the itinerary concludes Giulietta. From there, continue on to found in the sacristry. Cross the ancient especially evocative at Porta Leone, one to the banks of the Adige River, it is both center, is a symbol of the city. Passing at the Basilica di San Zeno, one of the Piazza delle Erbe, site of the ancient Roman bridge of Ponte Pietra, and stop of the entrances into the ancient Roman a bustling, modern northern Italian city underneath an unusual archway (a large most beautiful and important Roman forum, Piazza dei Signori, the old at the medieval church of Sant' Anastasia, city. The ancient Roman forum is today and a living testament to Verona's rib hangs down from its main arch) you Romanesque churches in northern Italy. market courtyard of the Cortile del admiring the famous fresco by Pisanello found at Piazza delle Erbe. Cross the glorious past. enter Piazza dei Signori, the former seat Masterpieces such as the bronze panels Mercato Vecchio, the so-called Stairs of inside. Adige River at the Roman bridge known Begin your exploration of Verona in the of the medieval Scaligier reign (the della of the main portal and Andrea Reason, or Scala della Ragione, and the as Ponte Pietra, and visit the Teatro centrally located Piazza Brà, where the Scala family palace is found at one end Mantegna's triptych found at the high Scaliger Tombs at the Arche Scaligere. Romano, an ancient Roman theater and enormous Arena, a Roman amphitheatre of the piazza). Adjacent, you will see the altar are indicative of an important period Return to Piazza Brà along the Corso Archeological Museum, on the other side. from the first century A.D., is located.