Italy: Bologna and Verona

This is part of a series of posts of my trip to Italy. See past posts here:

Rome   Montefalco   Florence   Verona   Venice

Our next stop was to Bologna. It wasn’t so tour-isty which was nice, but it kind of felt like we were in a bad neighborhood and we were warned not to go out alone. There was graffiti everywhere. We didn’t see as many sights there as in the other places except on the first day where we broke up in teams and went on a “scanvenger hunt” for different places.

 Verona was our next stop which is famous for Juliet’s balcony from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Even though the story is fictional, the story makes references to the balcony in Verona. It is the most famous balcony in the world. I thought it was really fun to see. Somebody was blowing kisses while I took a photo. Romeo’s house was also there, we couldn’t go inside because it is privately own.



I went to a garden in Verona. It was really pretty and I loved the lemon trees.

Have you ever been to Bologna or Verona?