Verona Tourist Traps

This is the poor and strange sculpture of William Shakespeare , that gave the reason to call the innercourt of one the houses "Il Giardino di Romeo et Guilietta".
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.

Unique Suggestions: Walk by, forget about it, or simply take it as a place to stay in the shade for a moment, while walking through Verona.

Fun Alternatives: 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...

"Il Giardino di Romeo et Guilietta" is a sign you may see not far away from the Casa di Giulietta in Via Capello.
BUT when you get inside all you may see is quite a nice innercout with lovely arcades and a small statue of William Shakespeare...

Unique Suggestions: 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...

Fun Alternatives: Forget about this place, the "real" balcony of Giulietta is in a distance of only 200 meters.

Well, the place is nice indeed but I label this as a tourist trap for three reasons:
1. Sticking love messages with chewing gums is not romantic at all.
2. the balcony is not original and it has been rebuilt in recent times.
3 there is no proof that Shakespeare has set here its Romeo
As a matter of fact I can say that this is a real tourist trap but after all Verona owes this balcony much part of its fame all over the world.

Juliet's balcony - Everbody wants to stand here and often you have to queue for your brief moment here! I wonder if people would be so keen though if they knew this balcony was only added onto this house in the 1900's :-S

Don't believe in everything. And after all don't forget that Romeo and Juliet is JUST A STORY. Not real persons. When I was in Verona our guide offered to take us to see tomb of Juliet. Hey, we are not so stupid to believe in that. Anyway this is the convent complex of San Francesco al Corso and it dates to the thirteenth century. In 1935, Antonio Avena, director of the civic museums, opened to the public the so-called “tomb of Juliet”. This site, according to legend, is where the sarcophagus holding the bodies of Romeo and Juliet was placed, and it naturally became a tourist attraction or shell I say tourist trap.

Unique Suggestions: Don't forget it's just a story. No tombs of Romeo or Juliet.

The crowds in the courtyard, the horrible graffiti on the wall and the long queues of tourists waiting to get their picture taken touching Juliet's breast were more than enough to keep us here for less than a minute. Avoid this, there are much more genuine sites to see in Verona.

In the hot summer days, especially if walking, runing or doing any other activities out on the sun, our body need increased quantity of liquid supply. The average daily need, during the year, is about two liters of liquid, in the summer it increased up to 6-7 liters per day. Belive me, I know what am saying, I am grown-up where the summer is very hot and besides, I was active sportsmen.

Unique Suggestions: 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!

Fun Alternatives: 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.

This is a cafe right between the Arena, and Louis Vuitton shop. Great for people watching, but exorbitant for the things they're serving.
Really small portion of pasta, a quarter of a regular pizza and a soda for 25 Euro. Be warned!

Fun Alternatives: Go grab a sandwich.