Let me guide you how to a visit Italy if you have just 3 days



Dreading the delirium of the half-a-day-per city method.

First day: Choose Verona, because it's small and less sought-after, and thereby devise the dummy approach to seeing Italy. By the evening of the first day I am certain that if you've seen on Italian town you've seen them all, if you've done the rounds of one church you will most certainly overdose on Renaissance art, and as for Spaghetti Bolognese-how much of it can you take? The attitude especially suits all the perfectly civilized people out there who know nothing about wine. The only thing I know about wine is that it comes in two colors and both are nice.

Early in the day visit a church. St Anastasia, the largest in Verona and has altar after altar dedicated to saint after saint, with seemingly every inch of wall space covered in frescoes. Impressive.??The Fregoso Altar: This is carved by Danes Cattaneo da Carrara, one of Sansovion's best-known pupils, and it was dedicated to the Holy Redeemer. Such was its beauty that it attracted the attention of no less a person then Vasari.?

I am yet to learn that one of the founding principles of ltalian tourism is to impress by providing as little a sense of context as possible

Juliet's house is the epitome of tourist idiocy-one of those places where tourism has overtaken the object of tourism- scrawled a million word of graffiti all over it, clambered up to Juliet's bronze statue and chaffed her breast (supposedly for good luck) till it's burnished to white. The tourist authorities? way of framing the Capulet house is a goofy combination of trying to establish that Juliet is a historical character and yet projecting her as a fictional one.

If you have less than a week in Italy and like to focus, try Verona. It is Italy compressed into one square kilometer. And towards close of day you could stroll to the riverside Al Ponte in Via Ponte Pietra, take in the exquisite view of the tree-shaded monastery in the other side, and order some red wine. If you ask the waiter he'll tell you the names of the cheeses he brings you-stracchino, asiago, brie, gorgonzola? At the end of it all you'll be able to write your own guide to Italy for dummies.

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