Verona is perhaps best known internationally as the setting for Shakespeare's famous tragedy, Romeo and Juliet.
Inevitably, tourists asked where the star-crossed lovers lived, and Veronese obligingly pointed out a small medieval palazzo just off Piazza delle Erbe that had an attractive courtyard where tourists could stand without blocking the street.
In the 1930s, the city added the missing ingredient, building a balcony overlooking the courtyard.
Several decades later they added a bronze statue and set up displays inside the house for tourists to look at on their way to be photographed on the balcony.
