Maurizio

Zanetti

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.

The Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Misericordia was a school (brotherhood) of Battuti di Venezia active from 1308 to 1806. After having also been the seat of sports clubs and even a sports hall, it has rediscovered its wonderful function as a container, often for related exhibitions at the Venice Biennale.

The establishment of the provianda di Santa Marta or more simply provianda di Santa Marta is an Austrian barracks built between 1863 and 1865, when Verona was under Austrian rule. Originally it was intended for the production of bread and biscuits, for the storage and administration of other subsistence items, but starting from 2015, after the restorations, it houses the economics departments of the University of Verona.

Casa Museo Palazzo Maffei, Verona, Piazza delle Erbe, is a splendid art collection that is the result of over fifty years of collecting passion of the entrepreneur Luigi Carlon. For some time now the splendid terrace has also been visited, with its statues and a priceless view of Piazza delle Erbe.

Piazza San Marco, Venice. The Procuratie Vecchie, built for the first time in the 12th century and then rebuilt also apparently with the contribution of the architect Jacopo Sansovino in 1538, were for years the headquarters of the Assicurazioni Generali offices. In 2017 the restoration works began under the direction of the star architect David Chipperfield, works completed in April 2022. Since then, after 500 years, they are finally open to the public. On the third floor is the headquarters of the Generali The Human Safety Net ONLUS Foundation. And that's where I took the photo, an unprecedented point of view on Piazza San Marco and the Florian café.

The deconsecrated Church of Santa Chiara in Murano, restored and reopened to the public in 2016, is undoubtedly worth visiting. For the splendid restoration, for the furnishings, the glass and the demonstrations of glass art.

The scientific name is "Polyommatus coridon". The adult male has blue wings, the female golden. Finding them together on the same flower is a stroke of luck. Always having the iPhone in your hands makes it possible to have the photo ...

As every year, during the summer the Verona Arena hosts the Opera Festival. And around the Roman amphitheater the sets of the various works on the bill are stacked. Creating funny situations from time to time ...

In Venice the "sotoportego" is a kind of gallery which, passing under a building, connects a street (in Veniza it is called "calle") with another street or with a square (in Venice "campo"). Often the sotoporteghi are anonymous passages, sometimes they are small masterpieces. Like this one of the "Corte Nova" which, in the Castello district, connects "Corte Nova" with calle Zorzi.

Two sculptures by the artist Bruno Catalano in Venice, along the Riva degli Schiavoni. Its "suspended statues" placed in a strategic position give new framing to the splendid island of San Giorgio.

Verona, piazza delle Erbe in the evening. The warm lights, the statue of the poet Berto Barbarani (author the sculptor Novello Finotti), a storm coming.

The Palazzo del Capitanio (also known as Palazzo del Tribunale or Palazzo di Cansignorio), is a palace in Verona. Now finally at least partially restored, it opens its doors to the marvelous frescoed rooms.

There are magical places, a stone's throw from the historic center of Verona. Lucky places, bathed by small rivers that flow in an almost untouched nature. Places that invite you to leave your car and even your bicycle at home, crossing them calmly, step by step.

In Venice, outside the crowded tourist routes, the best thing is to get lost. Only in this way can you find its wonderful hidden corners, like a "campiello" that ends in a courtyard that ends on a canal overlooked by another courtyard ...

In front of a kindergarten in splendid Venice. Scooters are starting to be seen even in its centuries-old streets. The small, beautiful, push-action ones, driven by children. Who diligently park them in front of the school.

Spring. Nature awakens and wonderful flowers bloom out of nowhere. I don't know the name of the one in the picture, I love flowers but I don't have a "green thumb". Found along a road where the city turns back to the countryside.

When I am out and about walking around the city or its borders, I always have my iPhone in my hands. Because you don't know the right time to find something or someone to photograph, better be ready. And so it can happen to immortalize a splendid red cat that, for a moment, comes out of a garden, looks at you, goes back to where it came from.

Cities are full of them. These are the boxes that contain the various control units of the various telephone companies. As ugly as they are indispensable. Some street artists came up with the idea of painting them. And here is that horrible anonymous gray metal boxes become works of art. Here in Verona, Italy.