Verona

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  During my recent trip to Verona, Italy, I set out to find the best place to grab a glass of local wine. The region is well-known for making Valpolicella, Amarone, Bardolino, Prosecco, Soave, and Pinot Grigio wines; and every April it hosts the largest wine event on earth: VinItaly. This event brings hundreds of thousands …

It’s 8:42 am, and hiking is out of the question. I’m bummed. The peaks of the Alps are some of the most stunning in the world, but everything’s telling me to stay put in Verona: real-time local weather forecasts and live video feeds show rain, and it’s predicted to get worse. As much as I …

Romeo and Juliet may only be characters in a play, but they’ve been supporting a lucrative business in the city of Verona for quite a while. Souvenir shops sell figurines of the romantic, doomed couple and hotel ads quote Shakespeare. Tourists cluster in the courtyard under Juliet’s balcony and pose by her bronze statue, touching …