Maurizio

Zanetti

A stone's throw from the city of Verona, where the countryside is still countryside, a splendid field of poppies

Giardino Giusti is a splendid green corner at the back of a historic building in Verona, between the hill and the Adige river. Visiting it is always a surprise

A garden is the home of flowers. But it can also be an opportunity to free one's imagination.

Venice, the most beautiful city in the world, is rightly visited by millions of tourists every year. That creates a big mess. But the beauty of Venice beyond its splendid palaces and churches and museums are the "Venetian people". Who, serenely, sometimes fish in the lagoon with the background of the most beautiful scenography in the world.

One could say "all house and gondola". Nice discovery of a well-known Venetian tavern...

Flowering lasts only a few days. And the wisteria perched on the ancient well in the courtyard of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice needs to be photographed quickly.

Palazzo Grimani di Santa Maria Formosa in Venice, in the Castello district, today the Polo Museale del Veneto and patrimony of the Italian State, was purchased and modernized by Doge Antonio Grimani around the middle of the 1500s. In the photo, the sculpture with the Rape of Ganymede, hanging from the center of the hall called La Tribuna, is a Roman replica of a late Hellenistic model and was placed back in its original position after the restoration of the palace.

Palazzo Grassi, now home to the Pinault collection museum, is one of the most famous Venetian palaces overlooking the Grand Canal. Built in the mid-1700s, it maintains, alongside elements of modernity due to the restorations, original visions such as the fresco on the splendid ceiling.

Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, at the foot of the Accademia bridge, is a splendid building built in the Gothic style in the second half of the 1400s. It has been restored and remodeled several times and has always maintained the original facade. And, inside, the splendid frescoed stairs that you see in the photo.

Verona, the ancient Scaliger Walls that surround the city. A stone's throw from the center, as the night approaches

Ponte Pietra, in the wonderful Roman bridge of Verona, at the foot of the Roman Theater. When the night comes...

Venice, at sunset from the Fondamenta Nove a look towards the island of San Michele, which is the splendid historic cemetery of Venice.

Verona, Palazzo Maffei House Museum, the internal staircase. A casket within a casket in the good living room of the city.

Here in Verona (but also in Venice) we call them "cocai". They are the small black-headed gulls, not to be confused with the large and intrusive herring gulls. In winter they invade the city and give it more beauty. Here in flight along the Adige river, in the background Castelvecchio with its bridge.

At the "Specchio di Venere", the small thermal lake of volcanic origin on the island of Pantelleria.

In the late afternoon, when the evening gradually approaches, along the Adige river with the abbey of San Zeno in the background. In beautiful Verona.

The splendid colors of autumn with Castelvecchio as a backdrop. In beautiful Verona.

From the 16th century, what used to be the production space for dyeing wool became the garden of the villa that the Giusti family had built in the Veronetta district of Verona. Always cared for, it has maintained its original charm. In the photo, the entrance door seen from the courtyard of the Palazzo.

The "Provianda di Santa Marta", Verona, Veronetta district, is an Austrian barracks built between 1863 and 1865. More than a real barracks, it was a gigantic oven that produced bread and biscuits for the numerous Austrian garrison which at the time occupied Verona with 100,000 soldiers. After a long and beautiful restoration, today it houses some departments of the University of Verona.

A stone's throw from the center of Verona, in the former convent of San Francesco al Corso, in addition to the splendid "Cavalcaselle" Fresco Museum, there is a crypt with an uncovered sarcophagus in red Verona marble which according to tradition housed the mortal remains of the young Juliet Capulet. In reality it is all a staging, the sarcophagus is an old trough and certainly not the tomb of the Shakespearean heroine. But it doesn't matter: the place is well organized and entering it is exciting.