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Juliet's house is located in Via Cappello, not too far from Piazza Erbe. You may miss it the first time, or even the second time, but Ma Kettle and I found it the third time around.
You'll know you're there by the crowds of people spilling out into the street...duhh.
It is a fairly tall building, which dates back to the 13th. century, with a small courtyard underneath the balcony. Covering the walls of the courtyard, are 1000's and 1000's of post-it notes, each one declaring the authors love for their significant other. These 'love notes' are also written in ink directly on the brick surface, in magic marker, lipstick, nail polish, and White Out. Interesting, but hokey.
Understand that this site never really had Romeo and Juliet looking gah-gah at one another (or did it ??), and that it recently under went renovations to make it more tourist friendly, and that rubbing Juliet's bronze breast probably doesn't do much other than stimulate your senses, but, who cares, if hundreds of thousands of people enjoy this pilgrimage, who are we to argue.
Just go with the flow, and enjoy reading the Post-Its.
You could write a note and slip it under the door in the hotel room next to you...hey, just an alternative.
Remember one thing, when people find you've just come back from Verona, the first thing you're asked, is, "Did you visit Juliets house". That is a fact. Leave a Comment
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 poor William Shakespeare by globetrott
Besides this torso of a statue there are also some sculptured heads of animals in the facade of that house, but also without any connection to the story about Romeo and Giulietta.
Walk by, forget about it, or simply take it as a place to stay in the shade for a moment, while walking through Verona.
Be in time at the famous balcony and statue of Giulietta, fight with thousands of other tourists for the moment you are able to touch her right breast, and you will be lucky forever... Leave a Comment
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 Juliet's Balcony by tafurojo
Don't pay to stand on the balcony. Leave a Comment
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This isn't exactly a tourist trap tip, but there's no category for "Super Expensive Internet." The hostel I stayed at, Villa Francescati, had internet stations, but they were pretty expensive-about 4 Euros/hour. If you can, avoid these places and go to the public library.
If you have to use the internet terminals at the hostel or one of the internet cafes, make a list of thigs you need to do online before ever getting online. That way, you don't forget anything and you don't waste time and money sitting in front of the computer wondering if you ahve remembered everything.
Verona Public LIbrary. If you take your passport with you, you can use the internet in there free for a half hour.
The Library is at Piazza Bra, directly behind the Arena. Leave a Comment
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 Il Giardino di Romeo et
Guilietta by globetrott
BUT when you get inside all you may see is quite a nice innercout with lovely arcades and a small statue of William Shakespeare...
Il Giardino di Romeo et Guilietta might be a good place to spend some time in the shade, when it is hot in the rest of Verona, BUT it certainly does not have any connection with Shakespeare...
Forget about this place, the "real" balcony of Giulietta is in a distance of only 200 meters. Leave a Comment
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 Beer-bike by croisbeauty
What possible can happened if one don't take water or whatever when strolling around in the hot summer day?
The body get dray, because of increased perspiration, and sun-stroke might hit you badly!
It is not recommendable, however, to take too much beer or other acohol either. Geting drunk, if sun heat, might be very dangerous.
Hope you wont start seeing "white mouses" or beer bikes. Leave a Comment
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 The balcony is not quite
as old as the house. by craic
We were the only people in the house but there was a security guard on each floor. They were having a very thin time of it. They were so bored. (But more of that later.)
There we were on the first floor in what was obviously a bog old living room. I've never been in such an old house. I was almost feeling thrilled.
Then I noticed it couldn't have been anything else but a living room. And the famous balcony was attached to it.
So how was Miss Sexy Britches Juliet whispering sweet nothings from the privacy of her bedroom balcony down to young Romeo? All her family would have been playing canasta and listening in.
"What's Jools up to?"
"Oh she is just chatting up the son of our deadly rival."
Matt gleefully informed me the balcony was added in the 1920s.
A lot of the interior of the house seemed to be held up with some sort of scaffolding.
Matt did like the bed that was used in Zefferilli's film which was on display. And the cossies.
And here were some bog old faded fragments of frescos that gave me a frisson.
So up we headed to the top floor and passed a guard that had nodded off.
Then I noticed there was a screen pulled up to an open side window and a figure behind the screen leaning out of the window and a puff of smoke spiralling up. Guard having a sly puff. We tip toed on. It would never be the best of jobs in the first place - being disturbed as you are trying to have a quiet smoko would just about put the tin lid on it.
What is with the seven dwarves garden stools? The mind boggles. Leave a Comment
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... with the map they gave us and it wasn't such a short walk even if we hadn't got lost more than once. The map wasn't the best map I have ever consulted.
At last we spotted a small sign pointing the way after wandering up and down Via Shakespeare for a bit saying - "It must be round here somewhere."
I managed to drag Matt past the bust of Shakespeare with the plaque intoning on about - A pair of star crossed lovers - at the entrance.
(I know Shakespeare liberally helped himself to a poem called The Tragicall History Of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke who wrote it in 1562. And Arthur had taken the story from an Italian named Matteo Bandello.)
"Look at the nice garden," I said.
Anyway we entered the museum and I had to have another laugh. A proper hotch potch. A true melange. Some awfully nice ancient frescos, some very inferior statuary and down in the basement a slew of amphorae.
Anything that needed house space seemed to be housed here.
There was a hall full of really awful religious paintings set out in a kind of maze - and Matt just hates religious paintings - The Annuciation, The Matyrdom of ... etc etc but we weren't allowed to skip it. We were the only visitors and there were two guards plus a friend in a wheelchair who made us go through the whole maze in the proper direction.
So we did. Matt is having hot fits and cold shivers by now. Leave a Comment
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 Inside the Verona Amphitheatre by MadKiwiBeast
Definitely look at the outside not that you'll miss it - it dominates the centre of Verona. Leave a Comment
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 Juliet's courtyard by sandysmith
You have to pay to enter the house of Juliet to get to the balcony but it is worthwhile seeing the rest of the exhibits there. The view down onto the courtyard is good and watching the antics of the tourists posing with the statue of Juliet is amusing too.
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