Books set in Verona, Italy

The city Shakespeare gave two feuding houses, a balcony and a tomb, and which has shown visitors all three ever since.

1 place, 2 books,

1990
Vertigo
Vertiges
1990 · W. G. Sebald · novelalso Venice
Stendhal’s Alps, Kafka at Riva, and a narrator lost between Venice, Verona and Milan.
1597
Romeo and Juliet
Roméo et Juliette
1597 · William Shakespeare · play
Two houses of Verona, a ball, a balcony and a tomb.

Updated October 2026