We have a saying in Indonesian when something so red is, we called it merah merona, get it why this time it became Marlona? spill the teaaaa! it’s because Marlyn was in Verona 😉
What can I say about Verona other than it is sooooo romantically beautiful! every corner of it, no jokes. I bought 48 hours Verona card cost 28 Euro which is so worthy, it gave me an access to 15 attractions plus bus ticket. I have a must must must visit place, the two and only: Arena de Verona and Casa di Giulietta, for sure within my 48 hours stays in Verona I will manage this two places haha!
When I was on the way to take my Verona card, I walked passed a group of teenage schoolgirl, one girl came closer to me, out of nowhere she gave me a pluck of flower, awww so sweet! 🙂 Starting the day with a flower, what a nice gesture! God blessed me not only with a beautiful weather the whole day but also the energy to visit almost all “important according to me” attractions in one day!
Let’s check Arena de Verona! (btw the entrance itself was 10 Euro). When I visited Arena they hold a concert so you can see the stage, sound system etc. Nevertheless, I was amazed by the size of it, how it was in the old era serve as “Gladiator” or any kind of fight or performance. My point is this is WOW! Imagine you watch a concert here, must be amaazzinngggg #droll!
Moving on to the must visit number 2, Juliet’s Home! Joe said that I had to touch Juliet’s “left” boobs for luck, okay, I waited until it’s my turn to take pictures, remembering in my head left left left left but then damn! touched her right boobs, what worse was just realized it when I was already on her balcony! Texted Joe said “I need to re-do the picture because I touch her right boobs instead of the left” Joe searched it on google, to my surprise “No you did it right! it was my mistake, you should touch her right boobs” fiuhhhh! can’t do any mistake here 🙂
The house / museum is small but it does the job of showing which scenes are important from Romeo and Juliet.
Two of the most important attractions visited! The rest is luxus 🙂 let’s have some lunch! I had Amarone Risotto + Hugo. Oh Oh Oh people, I had to say that even the Aperol and Hugo taste better in Italy #droollinggg! I also did some gummibearchen shopping as when I walked pass the candy store, my inner child got excited to see so many type of it, I put it all in one bag until I weighed it on and it’s cost 14 Euro! f#$?! the same price as my lunch pfffffff #lesson learned
Next attraction is Torre dei Lamberti, Nico texted me to go here, I wasn’t even thinking of it at first. Here you can see Verona view from the top but not really Verona view view view like how it looks like on a fridge magnet souvenir or so, for this one you have to go to the other side 😉 still including in the Verona card…not bad to check this one but better pay 1 Euro for the elevator ride unless you don’t have Corona before than I think you can handle those stairs.
I am not a big fans of Museum so I won’t feel that I miss something if I missed it. Go to Basilica di Santa Anastasia! This church imo is better than Complesso della Cattedrale-Duomo. The Duomo is too big and easily to get split focus between the altar or the other part of the church.
I was in between closing my day or continue to visit one last attraction which is Museo Archeologico al Teatro Romano. Long story short, I’m glad I pushed myself to go there! This is where people would see the view of Verona’s bridge, l’acqua on postcard, fridge magnet and other souvenirs, so beautiful!!!!
The Museum itself is kind of an “open museum” style, I personally will tell you that this must be included into the must visit attraction because of the way to go there is just fantastic! You got different atmosphere other than the other attractions that are in the city center.
The guy in the museum informed me that behind this Museum not so far there is a place called Castel S. Pietro, this is the real “observation deck” without a deck hahaha! it’s an open area where you can see Verona’s view from the top top top but you had to walk a lot of stairs to go there, I did try but meh! running out of breath, go down again, I’m happy with Verona from the Museum 🙂
After that I am dead tired, I bought 2 slices of pizza to go, went to Hostel and lie down completely O_O
Still have 24 Hours to go, what’s next?!
I only have 3 places in mind, Museo degli Affreschi – Tomba di Giulietta, Museo di Castelvecchio and Chiesa di San Fermo Maggiore.
There are 4 Churches in total, San Fermo is the 3rd church I visited, the last one is Basilica di San Zeno but it’s located rather “remote” haha not so actually if I don’t have Corona for sure I’ll have enough energy to go there too but not this time 😉
Tomba di Giulietta is….. not like Casa di Giulietta, it’s a tomb….so….. and I’m not sure how did Juliet fits in this tomb hmmmm…. if you don’t have time I don’t think you missed it 🙂
Last attraction was Museo di Castelvecchio oh oh oh! I like this one! This also a mix of “open museum” with bricks style, sooo beautiful! This museum also should be in one of the must list haha the list is getting bigger and bigger 😉
With that I closed Verona, went to train station direction Bolzano to visit Thomas, let’s continue my Journey!
Thank you Verona for showing me that romantic is beautiful <3
