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From November 18 to December 26, Piazza dei Signori and the streets of the center host, for the 13th year, the characteristic wooden houses of the Christmas markets in Verona in collaboration with the "Christkindlmarkt" of Nuremberg.
The more than 100 houses of the Christmas markets offer handicrafts and many Christmas gift ideas and decorations, in glass, wood and ceramic, as well as gastronomic specialties and delicious Christmas sweets.
The entrance to the city welcomes visitors with a particular lighting to immediately immerse themselves in a characteristic Christmas atmosphere.
This leads to Piazza Bra where, with the Arena in the background, you can admire the great Christmas Star: the structure is considered the largest archisculpture (as a large metal sculpture) in the world and has a weight of 88 tons, and has a height of 100 meters.
At the Gran Guardia, the exhibition "Cribs from the world in Verona" awaits you.
Visiting the Christmas Market in Verona means diving into the magical tradition of Christmas in Verona; then immerse yourself in a fairytale atmosphere, where Juliet and Romeo, in this city of love, can kiss under the mistletoe held with a firm hand by Dante.

The story of Romeo and Juliet was born from the pen of Luigi da Porto, a nobleman from Vicenza, and was published as a short story in 1531; the Veronese setting is probably inspired by Dante's Comedy. In canto XVII of Paradiso the lordship of Bartolomeo della Scala is remembered, while in canto VI of Purgatory the Montecchi and Cappelletti, medieval families in conflict with each other, are remembered. The Montecchi were truly an ancient and noble Veronese family involved in factional struggles of the thirteenth century, while the Cappelletti were a Guelph family from Cremona, believed to be Veronese at the time of da Porto.

The story of Romeo and Juliet immediately begins to circulate in Verona and is repeatedly reprinted and rewritten. In 1553 two versions were written, one in prose by the famous short story writer Matteo Bandello, the other in verse by the Veronese nobleman Gherardo Boldieri; soon crosses the borders of the peninsula. Known and appreciated in France, it then reached England where, in 1596, it was staged by William Shakespeare with the title of The most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
The universal fame of Romeo and Juliet is due to the immortal verses of William Shakespeare.

Around 1560 Gherardo Boldieri hypothesizes that a sarcophagus of medieval origin preserved in the garden of the church of San Francesco al Corso (indicated by Da Porto as Juliet's burial place) is the tomb of the young heroine: thus begins the Veronese 'myth' of Romeo and Juliet.

In the eighteenth century, Juliet's tomb was already visited by European travelers on the Grand Tour who began to wonder about the existence of the Capulet house. After all, if there is a tomb there must also have been a house: and thus begins the story of Juliet's House.