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Roots Earth in Verona: audio stories about 40 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 40 places in Verona, Italy, in Europe. The Verona stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Verona, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 40 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: verona.md

The 40 places in Verona with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Verona Arena
  2. Juliet's House
  3. Piazza delle Erbe
  4. Piazza dei Signori
  5. Castelvecchio
  6. Castelvecchio Bridge (Ponte Scaligero)
  7. Ponte Pietra
  8. Verona Cathedral (Duomo)
  9. Basilica of San Zeno
  10. Basilica of Sant'Anastasia
  11. Torre dei Lamberti
  12. Scaliger Tombs
  13. Roman Theatre of Verona
  14. Giardino Giusti
  15. Porta Borsari
  16. Castel San Pietro
  17. Basilica of San Fermo Maggiore
  18. Loggia del Consiglio
  19. Palazzo Maffei
  20. Arco dei Gavi
  21. Juliet's Tomb
  22. Santa Maria in Organo
  23. Church of San Lorenzo
  24. Castelvecchio Museum
  25. Piazza Bra
  26. Palazzo della Gran Guardia
  27. Natural History Museum of Verona
  28. Madonna di Lourdes Sanctuary
  29. Veronetta
  30. Piazza delle Erbe Market
  31. Ponte Nuovo
  32. Lungadige Riverside Walk
  33. Interrato dell'Acqua Morta
  34. Porta Vescovo
  35. Church of Santo Stefano
  36. Monumental Cemetery of Verona
  37. Forte San Mattia
  38. Verona City Walls (Bastioni)
  39. Church of Santa Toscana
  40. Verona's Historic Osterie

Is there an audio guide for Verona Arena?

Yes. Verona Arena has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 40 Verona places in the app, at 45.43898, 10.99452. Every one of the other 39 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Verona

Open Roots Earth and choose Verona. The city has its own map of places with all 40 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 40 places in Verona, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 40 places in Verona, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Verona Arena

Coordinates
45.43898, 10.99452
In one line
A vast Roman amphitheatre built around the year 30, older than Rome's Colosseum and still in daily use. Once it held gladiator contests for thirty thousand spectators; today it stages one of the world's largest open-air opera festivals.

2. Juliet's House

Coordinates
45.44183, 10.99811
In one line
A thirteenth-century Gothic house once owned by the Cappello family, whose name echoes Shakespeare's Capulets. Its celebrated balcony was added in the nineteen thirties, and visitors leave love letters and rub a bronze statue of Juliet for luck.

3. Piazza delle Erbe

Coordinates
45.44306, 10.9975
In one line
Verona's oldest square, laid out on the site of the Roman forum and still busy with a daily market. A medieval fountain crowned by an ancient statue, a Venetian lion column, and frescoed palaces frame this lively civic heart.

4. Piazza dei Signori

Coordinates
45.44361, 10.99861
In one line
An elegant medieval square that served as Verona's seat of government, ringed by the palaces of the ruling Scaligeri family and linked by graceful arches. A statue of the exiled poet Dante stands at its centre, giving it the nickname Piazza Dante.

5. Castelvecchio

Coordinates
45.44, 10.98889
In one line
A mighty red-brick fortress on the Adige River, built in the mid fourteenth century by the ruling Scaligeri family. Now home to an art museum famous for its bold modern restoration, it remains the most important medieval military monument in Verona.

6. Castelvecchio Bridge (Ponte Scaligero)

Coordinates
45.44083, 10.9875
In one line
A fortified red-brick bridge spanning the Adige beside Castelvecchio, built in the mid fourteenth century by the Scaligeri lords. Its largest arch was once the widest in the world. Destroyed in 1945, it was faithfully rebuilt soon after.

7. Ponte Pietra

Coordinates
45.44694, 10.99889
In one line
Verona's oldest bridge, a Roman crossing of the Adige dating from around 100 before the Common Era. Blending ancient stone and medieval brick arches, it was destroyed in 1945 and rebuilt with its own salvaged materials, linking the old city to the Roman theatre.

8. Verona Cathedral (Duomo)

Coordinates
45.44778, 10.99694
In one line
Two stone knights from the Charlemagne legends guard the doorway, swords drawn. Step past them and Titian's Virgin rises into golden cloud above the altar. Eight centuries of devotion under one roof.

9. Basilica of San Zeno

Coordinates
45.4425, 10.97861
In one line
Forty-eight bronze panels tell the whole Bible to anyone who couldn't read. A laughing saint holds a fishing rod in the crypt. And Shakespeare married Romeo and Juliet right here.

10. Basilica of Sant'Anastasia

Coordinates
45.44583, 10.99861
In one line
Two carved hunchbacks crouch by the door, shouldering the weight of the holy water for six centuries. Above the chapel, Pisanello painted Saint George riding out to face a dragon. Verona's largest church holds both.

11. Torre dei Lamberti

Coordinates
45.44306, 10.99806
In one line
Two bells once ran Verona's whole day: one called citizens to council, the other marked the working hours. Climb eighty-four metres above the market square and the city unrolls beneath your feet.

12. Scaliger Tombs

Coordinates
45.44361, 10.99889
In one line
High above the street, a warlord rides his stone horse with a strange wide grin, sword on his shoulder. The lords who once ruled Verona are buried in the open air, behind an iron fence shaped like ladders.

13. Roman Theatre of Verona

Coordinates
45.44833, 10.99944
In one line
Buried under houses for centuries, this Roman theatre vanished from the city's memory until one man bought the whole hillside and dug it back into the light. Tonight, Shakespeare plays on its ancient stage.

14. Giardino Giusti

Coordinates
45.44778, 11.005
In one line
A single avenue of cypresses runs dead straight toward a snarling stone face carved into the cliff, a face that once breathed fire. Goethe loved this garden. Climb it, and Verona opens at your feet.

15. Porta Borsari

Coordinates
45.44389, 10.99417
In one line
A monumental Roman city gate that once marked the main western entrance to Verona on the Via Postumia. Its richly carved limestone facade, with paired arches and rows of arched windows, dates in its present form to the third century.

16. Castel San Pietro

Coordinates
45.44944, 11.00056
In one line
Long fortified since antiquity, it carries an Austrian barracks built in the mid-nineteenth century on ground once held by a church and a Visconti castle.

17. Basilica of San Fermo Maggiore

Coordinates
45.44056, 10.99944
In one line
A double church built one above the other, with a Romanesque lower sanctuary and a soaring Gothic upper hall crowned by a wooden ship's-keel ceiling. It honours the martyrs Fermo and Rustico and holds frescoes by Pisanello.

18. Loggia del Consiglio

Coordinates
45.44361, 10.99833
In one line
An elegant Renaissance loggia on Piazza dei Signori, built in the late fifteenth century as the seat of the city council. Its arcaded marble facade is crowned by statues of Roman writers born in or linked to Verona.

19. Palazzo Maffei

Coordinates
45.44333, 10.99722
In one line
A Baroque palace closing the north end of Piazza delle Erbe, its facade topped by statues of ancient gods. Built in the late seventeenth century, it now houses the Casa Museo Palazzo Maffei art collection, opened in 2020.

20. Arco dei Gavi

Coordinates
45.44056, 10.98889
In one line
A rare privately funded Roman arch raised by the Gavia family in the first century and signed by its architect. Demolished in 1805 and rebuilt from its original stones in 1932, it now stands beside Castelvecchio.

21. Juliet's Tomb

Coordinates
45.43306, 11.00056
In one line
An empty stone sarcophagus in a former Capuchin convent, revered for centuries as the tomb of Shakespeare's Juliet. The site, which also holds a fresco museum, has drawn romantic pilgrims including Lord Byron and Charles Dickens.

22. Santa Maria in Organo

Coordinates
45.44861, 11.00444
In one line
One of Verona's oldest churches, rooted in the early Middle Ages and run by Olivetan monks. It is famous for the wooden inlay choir and sacristy by Fra Giovanni da Verona, panels so lifelike that Vasari called them the finest in Italy.

23. Church of San Lorenzo

Coordinates
45.44306, 10.9925
In one line
A rare Romanesque church rebuilt in the twelfth century, hidden behind a quiet courtyard off Corso Cavour. Two round towers, striped walls of stone and brick, and an upper women's gallery make it one of the most unusual medieval churches in Verona.

24. Castelvecchio Museum

Coordinates
45.44, 10.98889
In one line
Verona's leading art museum, set inside a fourteenth-century Scaliger fortress on the Adige. Inaugurated on April 25, 1926 and famously redesigned by architect Carlo Scarpa, it holds medieval and Renaissance masterpieces, including the original equestrian statue of Cangrande.

25. Piazza Bra

Coordinates
45.43833, 10.99389
In one line
Verona's grand central square and one of the largest in Italy, framed by the Roman Arena, grand palaces, and a tree-lined garden. Its broad marble walkway, the Liston, is the city's favorite place to stroll, dine, and gather.

26. Palazzo della Gran Guardia

Coordinates
45.43778, 10.99417
In one line
A monumental palace on Piazza Bra, designed in the early seventeenth century by Domenico Curtoni as a parade hall for Venetian troops. Left unfinished for over two centuries and completed around 1853, it now serves as an exhibition and conference center.

27. Natural History Museum of Verona

Coordinates
45.44083, 11.00194
In one line
Verona's civic natural history museum, an autonomous institution since 1926 and housed in the Renaissance Palazzo Pompei by the Adige. It is renowned for the spectacular fossil fish of Monte Bolca, alongside collections of geology, botany, zoology, and prehistory.

28. Madonna di Lourdes Sanctuary

Coordinates
45.43528, 10.98083
In one line
A hilltop sanctuary above Verona, built on the site of a former Austrian fort; an earlier sanctuary in the Stimate complex was destroyed by a bomb in April 1945. Dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes, it is crowned by a dome and an illuminated statue of the Madonna that watches over the city by night.

29. Veronetta

Coordinates
45.44556, 11.0025
In one line
The lived-in quarter on the left bank of the Adige, home to much of Verona's university and one of its most mixed communities. Less polished than the centre, it is where students, longtime residents and newer arrivals share the same streets.

30. Piazza delle Erbe Market

Coordinates
45.44306, 10.9975
In one line
The daily market that fills Verona's oldest square, set on the ground of the ancient Roman forum. Stalls of produce, flowers, souvenirs and seasonal goods carry on a trading rhythm that has run here, in one form or another, for two thousand years.

31. Ponte Nuovo

Coordinates
45.44417, 10.99972
In one line
A plain working bridge over the Adige, rebuilt after the river crossings of Verona were destroyed in the Second World War. Less photographed than the city's older spans, it carries the everyday traffic and footsteps of residents moving between the two banks.

32. Lungadige Riverside Walk

Coordinates
45.44556, 10.99694
In one line
The embankment walks that run along the Adige through Verona, built when the river was walled to control its floods. Today they are where residents stroll, jog, walk dogs and watch the water, a green ribbon threading through the heart of the city.

33. Interrato dell'Acqua Morta

Coordinates
45.44389, 11.00139
In one line
A wide street in Verona that was once a branch of the Adige, filled in during the nineteenth century. Its name means the buried dead water, marking where a slow, stagnant side-channel of the river was covered over to create dry land.

34. Porta Vescovo

Coordinates
45.44083, 11.0125
In one line
The eastern gate of Verona and a key point in the Austrian-era fortifications that ringed the city in the nineteenth century. Long a working-class threshold where roads, railways and barracks met, it marks the edge of the old walled city on its eastern side.

35. Church of Santo Stefano

Coordinates
45.44972, 10.99889
In one line
One of Verona's oldest churches, rising on the left bank below Castel San Pietro. An early cathedral and burial place of the city's first bishops, its Romanesque body still holds centuries of quiet local devotion.

36. Monumental Cemetery of Verona

Coordinates
45.43972, 11.0125
In one line
Verona's grand neoclassical cemetery, designed by Giuseppe Barbieri in the early nineteenth century. Its long colonnades and family monuments form an open-air gallery of sculpture, and a quiet place of remembrance that locals still tend with care.

37. Forte San Mattia

Coordinates
45.45417, 11.00611
In one line
A nineteenth-century Austrian hill fort on the heights above Verona, part of the Habsburg defences that ringed the city. Now a weathered ruin among the vineyards and woods, it draws locals up for the walk and the sweeping view.

38. Verona City Walls (Bastioni)

Coordinates
45.44944, 10.98417
In one line
The great ring of defensive walls and bastions around Verona, layered over Roman, medieval, Venetian and Austrian eras. Michele Sanmicheli shaped its Renaissance ramparts; today the grassy bastions are everyday parks where locals walk, run and gather.

39. Church of Santa Toscana

Coordinates
45.44222, 11.00833
In one line
A modest left-bank church near Porta Vescovo, keeping alive the memory of Saint Toscana, a medieval Veronese widow venerated for her care of the sick. Its quiet history reaches back to the age of pilgrims and crusader hospitals.

40. Verona's Historic Osterie

Coordinates
45.44306, 10.995
In one line
Verona's old wine taverns, where locals gather over a glass of Valpolicella or Soave and simple home cooking. More than bars, the osterie are the social heart of the city, keeping alive a centuries-old culture of wine, talk and belonging.

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