Archaeological site · Veneto
Verona Arena
The Verona Arena (Arena di Verona) is a Roman amphitheatre on Piazza Bra in Verona, used as a venue for opera since 1913.
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Verona
Verona is a city and comune on the Adige in the Veneto region of northern Italy; Italy's national tourism site says it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000. XTOUR maps places in the city itself, such as the Arena, the Castelvecchio Museum, the Basilica of San Zeno and the Roman Theatre, and does not count Lake Garda as part of the city.
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Museum · Veneto
Castelvecchio Museum
The Castelvecchio Museum is a civic art museum in Verona, housed in Castelvecchio, the 14th-century Scaliger castle on the right bank of the Adige.
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Church · San Zeno, Veneto
Basilica of San Zeno
The Basilica of San Zeno Maggiore is a Romanesque church in Verona, named after the city's patron saint, whose remains are kept in its crypt.
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Archaeological site · Veneto
Roman Theatre of Verona
The Roman Theatre of Verona is the remains of a 1st-century BC open-air Roman theatre on the slope of the San Pietro hill, on the left bank of the Adige in Verona.
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Roman amphitheatres in Italy compared: the Colosseum, Verona and Pompeii
The Colosseum, the Verona Arena and the amphitheatre of Pompeii are the same kind of building but three different kinds of visit: one ticketed archaeological park, one working venue with a separate monument ticket, and one building inside an excavated city. This article compares who runs each, what their official pages say about age, size and entry, and where those pages disagree.
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Travel Guide02
Is Tuscany a city? Italy's regions, provinces and city names explained
Tuscany is one of Italy's twenty regions, not a city: Florence is its capital, and Pisa and Siena are separate towns inside it. This explainer sets out how Italy's regions, provinces, metropolitan cities and municipalities fit together, why the English and Italian names differ, and why XTOUR records cities rather than regions.
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Destination information last verified: October 9, 2026
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