The Province of Verona is a province

Provinces of Italy

In Italy, a province is an administrative division of intermediate level between a municipality and a region .-Overview:...

 in the Veneto

Veneto

Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...

 region of Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

. Its capital is the city of Verona

Verona

Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

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Overview

The province has an area of 3,109 km², and a total population of 912,981 (2009). There are 98 comuni (singular: comune) in the province.

Important comuni include Bovolone

Bovolone

Bovolone is a town and a comune in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 90 km west of Venice and about 25 km southeast of Verona....

, Bonavigo

Bonavigo

Bonavigo is a comune in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 80 km west of Venice and about 30 km southeast of Verona...

, Bussolengo, Cerea

Cerea

Cerea is a town and comune in the province of Verona, Veneto, northern Italy.-History:From 923 AD until 1223 Cerea was a castrum . On 1223 Cerea it became a "comune" but, a year after, it was plundered because of the war between Mantua and Verona. A period of decadence followed, also because of the...

, Isola della Scala

Isola della Scala

Isola della Scala is a comune of c. 10,000 inhabitants in the Province of Verona in the Italian region of Veneto, located about 90 km west of Venice and about 20 km southeast of Verona....

, Legnago

Legnago

Legnago is a town and comune in the Province of Verona, Veneto, northern Italy. It is located on the Adige river, c. 43 km from Verona.Its fertile land produces crops of rice, other cereals, sugar, and tobacco.-History:...

, Negrar

Negrar

Negrar is a comune in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 110 km west of Venice and about 12 km northwest of Verona.-History:...

, Peschiera del Garda

Peschiera del Garda

Peschiera del Garda , is a town and comune in the province of Verona, in Veneto, Italy. When Lombardy-Venetia was under Austrian rule, Peschiera was the northwest anchor of the four fortified towns constituting the so-called Quadrilatero...

, San Bonifacio

San Bonifacio

San Bonifacio is a comune in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 80 km west of Venice and about 25 km east of Verona....

, San Giovanni Lupatoto

San Giovanni Lupatoto

San Giovanni Lupatoto is a town and comune in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 100 km west of Venice and about 7 km southeast of Verona....

, San Martino Buon Albergo

San Martino Buon Albergo

San Martino Buon Albergo is a comune in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 100 km west of Venice and about 9 km east of Verona....

, Soave

Soave

Soave is a small comune of the Veneto region in the Province of Verona, Italy with a population of roughly 6,800 people.-Geography:Soave is located approximately 23 kilometers east of Verona and is reachable by use of the A4 motorway exit Soave-San Bonifacio.-History:Soave was a Roman center on the...

, Sona

Sona, Italy

-Twin towns:Sona is twinned with:* Wadowice in Poland in Bavaria, Germany...

, Valeggio sul Mincio

Valeggio sul Mincio

Valeggio sul Mincio is a comune in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 120 km west of Venice and about 25 km southwest of Verona. It is crossed by the Mincio river....

  and Villafranca di Verona

Villafranca di Verona

Villafranca di Verona is a town and comune in the province of Verona in the Veneto, Northern Italy.-History:The position on the ancient via Postumia and the perpendicular intersection structure of its roads suggests that the city had Roman origins....

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

's play Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...

takes place in Verona, as do some scenes in his play The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1590 or 1591. It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play, and is often seen as his first tentative steps in laying out some of the themes and tropes with which he would later deal in more...

. The Casa di Giulietta (Juliet Capulet

Juliet Capulet

Juliet is one of the title characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, the other being Romeo. She is the daughter of old Capulet, head of the house of Capulet. The story has a long history that precedes Shakespeare himself....

's villa in the play) is an important local visitor attraction.

External links

• Official website (in Italian).
• Tourist information