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The city of Verona rises to the feet of hills of the Lessinia, is atraversada by the Adige river and their climate and vegetation are influenced by the near Lake of Garda.
The province of Verona, with 3,097 km ² of extension, is a point of encuetro between important cities lombardas like Brescia and Mantua and the cities vénetas par excellence like Vicenza, Padua and Rovigo. This special position makes of this city an important datum point for the regions of the north of Italy.
The province of Verona has 787,229 inhabitants of whom 256,756 reside in the city and they are dedicated, in its majority, to the sector of the commerce and the tourism.
Verona is the more important artistic city of Véneto after Venice as they indicate his artistic monuments and goods that characterize the historical center of the city.
Between Roman monuments it emphasizes the Roman Theater of augustea time, that presents/displays great niches and one gradería semicircular.
The famous Sand of Verona belongs to the Flavia time and is an amphitheatre that was constructed outside the walls that surrounded the city.
Other important monuments belong to the románica and gothic time like the Church of San Zenón of century XII and the Cathedral that was constructed between 1139 and 1140.
In the church of San Fermo Maggiore some fresh airs of Giotto are conserved, paintings of Pisanello and several fabrics of the veronesa school.
However, the more important civil construction is Castelvecchio than della Scala was made construct by Cangrande II (1354-1357).
Of the renacimental period they emphasize architectonic works of Sanmicheli: Nuova porthole (1535-1540) Pallium (1542-1557) Guastaverza palace 1530 Pellegrini Chapel and, Porthole, Pompei, Canossa and Bevilacqua of the Church of Santa Maria in Organ.
Finally, between the most important museums of Verona we remembered: the Archaeological Museum, the Civic Museum of Castelvecchio, in which a great amount of works of art of important teachers like Pisanello, Mantegna, Tiziano and Tintoretto is conserved, and the Lapidario Museum that the oldest collection gathers of Greek tablets, Roman and medieval. The Regional base della Lissinia was instituted in 1990 tutelary the abundant natural, historical and ethnic patrimony of the territory of Verona.
This park occupies an area that is located between the 1200 and 1800 meters on the level of the sea and can be visited by own account or, making the reserve of a visit with guide to be able to admire better the wealth and the natural beauty of this place.
Another very pretty place is Alive the Natura Park, in the neighborhood of Verona, a species of zoo-safari that in addition protects species is via of extinction.


 

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