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Hotels in Verona are often needed in the city to provide short term accommodation. Some may want to stay at luxury hotels or cheap hotels. Some may want to stay at hotels in the city that or old or new. Some may want a hotel that has a old architectural designs.
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Verona is one of the seven provincial capitals in Veneto, Northern Italy and it has the second largest population in Triveneto (an area formed by the three regions of Veneto, Trentino Alto Adige and Friuli Venezia Giulia).
Verona is visited every year by hundreds of thousands of tourists because of its artistic beauties, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheatre built by the Romans.
Verona owes its historical and economical importance to its geographical location. The ancient town of Verona and the center of the modern era are in a loop of the Adige River near Lake Garda. Because of this position, the areas saw regular floodings until 1956, when the Mori-Torbole tunnel was constructed, providing 500 cubic meters of discharge from the Adige river to Lake Garda when there was danger of flooding. The tunnel reduced the risk of flooding from once every seventy years to once every two centuries. Geographic history of Verona is plains and small mountain areas.
The most well-known monuments in Verona are the Arena and Juliets balcony. Inhabitants of Verona are referred to as "Veronese" (Italian: Veronesi or informally Scaligeri).
Because
of the value and importance of its many historical buildings, Verona has been
named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. For a list of landmarks in Verona, see Buildings
and structures in Verona. Verona preserved with pride many ancient Roman monuments,
no longer in use, in the early Middle Ages, but much of this and much of its early
medieval edifices were destroyed or heavily damaged by the earthquake of 3 January
1117, which led to a massive Romanesque rebuilding. The Carolingian period Versus
de Verona contains an important description of Verona in the early medieval era.
The Roman military settlement in what is now the center of the city was to expand through the cardi and decumani that intersect at right angles. This structure has been kept to the present day and is clearly visible from the air. Further development has not reshaped the original map. Though the Roman city with its basalt-paved roads is mostly hidden from view it stands virtually intact about 6 m below the surface. Most palazzi and houses have cellars built on Roman artifacts that are unfortunately rarely accessible to visitors. Piazza delle Erbe, near the Roman forum was rebuilt by Cangrande I and Cansignorio della Scala I, lords of Verona, using material (such as marble blocks and statues) from roman spas and villas.
Verona is famous for its Roman amphitheatre, the Arena, completed around 30 AD, which is the third largest in Italy, after Rome's Colosseum and the arena at Capua. It measures 139 meters long and 110 meters wide, and could seat some 25,000 spectators in its 44 tiers of marble seats. The ludi (shows and gladiator games) performed within its walls were so famous that they attracted spectators from far beyond the city. The current two-story façade is actually the internal support for the tiers; only a fragment of the original outer perimeter wall in white and pink limestone from Valpolicella, with three stories remains.The interior is very impressive and is virtually intact, and has remained in use even today for public events, fairs, theatre and open-aired opera during warm summer nights.
There is also a variety of other Roman monuments to be found in the town, such as the Roman theatre. This theatre was built in the 1st century BC, but through the ages had fallen in disuse and had been built upon to provide housing. In the 18th century Andrea Monga, a wealthy Veronese, bought all the houses that in time had been built over the theatre, demolished them, and saved the monument. Not far from it is the Ponte di Pietra ("Stone Wall Bridge"), another Roman landmark that has survived to this day.
The town has two football teams. Historically, the city's major team has been Hellas Verona. The other team is Chievo Verona which has been the more sucessful side in recent years..
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