Garry, along with a few other thousand visitors, rubbed Juliet’s bronze breast. It is said it will bring everlasting love.

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September 29th 2007
In retrospect, Verona is a beautiful city (from the bell tower), the streets were packed and we felt rushed as we only had the afternoon to spend before we were off again. We made the obligatory stop at Juliet's balcony. A couple hundred years ago, an entrprising Veronese dude slapped an empty Roman sarcophagus against the wall and labeled it "Juliet's balcony". Tourists having been flocking he ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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