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Verona Arena. The Verona Arena ( Italian: Arena di Verona [aˈrɛːna di veˈroːna, aˈreːna -]) is a Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra in Verona, Italy built in 30 AD. It is still in use and serves as a venue for large-scale opera performances. It is one of the best preserved ancient structures of its kind.
The Villa Girasole (il girasole meaning ‘the sunflower’ in Italian) is a house constructed in the 1930s in Marcellise, northern Italy, near Verona. The conception of architect Angelo Invernizzi, the Girasole rotates to follow the sun as it moves, just as a sunflower opens up and turns to follow the sun. [1] [2] This is how the unique house ...
The Roman walls of Verona were an important defensive curtain wall equipped with numerous towers and monumental gates, built in several successive construction phases starting in the late Republican age and continuing through the early Roman-Germanic kingdoms . The first phase of construction of the defenses began around the second half of the ...
Verona Cathedral Verona Cathedral The Verona Cathedral is a complex of buildings consisting of the main church, dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption, the church of St. John in Fonte, formerly a baptistery, the church of St. Helena, and the Chapter Library, one of the oldest libraries in the world and among the most important of its kind in Europe.
The origins of Verona are unclear. According to some theories it was a city of the Euganei, who were obliged to cede the city to the Cenomani circa 550 BC. Other scholars link its foundation to the presence of the Arusnates in the area, a people of uncertain origins, perhaps taped [citation needed] to the Etruscans: the name would have meant ...
Teatro Filarmonico. The Teatro Filarmonico is the main opera theater in Verona, Italy, and is one of the leading opera houses in Europe. The Teatro Filarmonico is property of the Accademia Filarmonica di Verona. Having been built in 1716, and later rebuilt after a fire of January 21, 1749, and again after the allied bombing of February 23, 1945.
Kip's Castle, is a 10-acre (40,000 m 2) estate (8 acres in Verona, 2 acres (8,100 m 2) in Montclair) on the ridge of First Mountain, on the border of Montclair and Verona townships. It contains a 9,000-square-foot (840 m 2) mansion that replicates a medieval Norman castle, and a 6,000-square-foot (560 m 2) two-story carriage house.
Verona Cathedral ( Italian: Cattedrale Santa Maria Matricolare; Duomo di Verona) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Verona, northern Italy, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the designation Santa Maria Matricolare. It is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Verona . It was erected after two Palaeo-Christian churches on the same site had ...