Maurizio Zanetti

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.