History & legends

Browse practical Verona guides about history & legends and plan your visit with local tips.

Verona History and Facts: A Visitor’s Guide to the City

Explore Verona’s Roman landmarks, medieval squares and changing city walls with historical context for your visit.

Discover Verona’s best-known legends, where they are set and how to tell local tradition apart from documented history.

Read the Verona legend of the Arena built by the Devil in one night, the miracle that stopped the work and the history behind its missing section.

Find the Well of Love in Verona and read the tragic legend of Corrado and Isabella, with directions and nearby stops.

See the bone hanging under Arco della Costa between Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza dei Signori, and learn the legend behind it.

Discover the medieval legend linking Verona’s name to the Gallic leader Brennus and “Vae Roma”, and what historians can actually confirm.

Trace Romeo and Juliet from Luigi da Porto’s sixteenth-century novella to Shakespeare, and explore the story’s literary links with Verona.