Beautiful, yes. But the food sucks. Worst in Italy. Hit on the next go along with Como and a few other northern areas.
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Beautiful, yes. But the food sucks. Worst in Italy. Hit on the next go along with Como and a few other northern areas.
If you're going to hit the north I will put in a plug for Verona. It has a working Colosseum dating from the 1st Century. They perform opera and have other concerts there. I saw Aida there. Awesome freaking experience to sit in a 2000 year old building and see something like that.
Very very jealous. That’s one experience I haven’t had there. I’ll be back in septmeber but nowhere near Verona.
I can endorse this. I saw Don Geovanni there. It's also quite interesting since, not being a theatre, there's no hiding of the set changes, but it's all very smoothly done. That said, I will also say that if you go there in the height of summer it's thunderstorm central, and it can go from bright sun to tropical rainstorm in literally seconds.
Also, don't go to Juliet's balcony. There's essentially nothing at all to see and it's just absolutely choc-a-bloc with tourists, making it somewhat unpleasant to fight your way through.
Wasn't that crowded when I went 31 years ago, probably because Shakespeare hadn't really made it big yet. But I agree, there isn't much to see there. I did find it charming, though, how the city played up its connections to Shakespeare, in the names of shops and other things.
i liked verona, nice little city.
When did big Willy have his first hit play? Was it 1995? I forget.
I was into him before he was cool.
Italy's Adriatic coast is extremely underrated. I studied in Urbino in Marche for a couple of summers and it was incredible. Its a smallish walled city with a University set in the rolling hills. Stunning place to explore.
Pesaro and Fano are nice little beach towns and you can head north to Rimini for the high end club scene. If you have been to the major Italian cities already, I highly recommend getting off the path between Florence and Rome and seeing the east side.
Pesaro and Fano are nice little beach towns and you can head north to Rimini for the high end club scene. If you have been to the major Italian cities already, I highly recommend getting off the path between Florence and Rome and seeing the east side.
Also worth pointing out that, depending on what you want to see, you could go to Herculaneum instead of Pompeii. It's very close by, but the difference is that Pompeii was virtually entirely destroyed so has for the most part only waist-height walls at best and is half-way to being an archeological ruin, whereas Herculaneum for the most part stood standing and therefore you have a much better impression of what the city actually looked like - in some places the walls are still standing to two floors high.
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