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 Car Hire & Driving in Verona, ItalyWelcome to Verona Car Hire, Italy, available at Verona Airport.The Veneto and Friuli region Northeast Italy Car HireThe Veneto is a region of tremendous contrast, as you will discover on a trip to the region in your hire car, encompassing the breathtaking natural beauty of the Dolomites, Lake Gardo (Italy’s largest lake) and the rolling Euganean Hills, and the man-made delights of magnificent ancient cities such as Verona, Vicenza and Padua or Padova, all of which you can explore in your hire car while in the Veneto region. Neighbouring Friuli-Venezia Giulia lines the border with Slovenia to the east, taking in the Canic Hills in the north, the Roman towns of Aquileia and the bustling Adriatic port of Trieste, which you can also visit in your hire car while in the Friuli region of Italy. Verona Car HireVerona is a vibrant trading centre, the second biggest city in the Veneto region, after Venice, and one of the most prosperous in northern Italy that you can visit in your hire car. Verona’s ancient centre boasts many magnificent Roman ruins that you can visit in your hire car and are second only to those of Rome itself. Verona also has many fine palazzo built of ‘rosso di Verona’, the local pink-tinged limestone, which are beautiful sight to see from your hire car while touring Verona. Verona has two main focal points that you can visit in your hire car; firstly the massive 1st century AD Arena, which is still the setting for major events in Verona, and also Piazza Erbe with its colourful market. One of the main attractions in Verona, however, is the church of San Zeno Maggiore, which boasts unusual medieval bronze door panels which you can see on a visit in your hire car while in Verona. However these sights aren’t the only places of interest that you can visit in your hire car while in Verona. The Castelvecchio, which you will find on Corso Castelvecchio in your hire car is an impressive castle built by Cangrande II between 1355 and 1375 that houses one of the finest art galleries in the Veneto region outside of Venice. The Arena, which you will find on Piazza Bra in your hire car, is Verona’s Roman amphitheatre. Completed in AD 30, it is the third largest in the world, after Rome’s Colosseum and the amphitheatre at Santa Maria Capua Vetere, near Naples. The amphitheatre is a spectacular place to visit in your hire car while in Verona, the interior, still virtually intact, could hold almost the entire population of Roman Verona and visitors came from across the Veneto region to watch gladiatorial combats. San Fermo Maggiore is not one but two churches that you can visit while in Verona and will find on Via San Fermo in your hire car. The churches are most clearly seen from the outside, which you can do from your hire car, where the apse has pointed Gothic elements rising above a sturdy Romanesque base. Since the days of the Roman Empire, Piazza Erbe, built on the site of the ancient Roam forum, has been the centre of Verona. Many of Verona’s fine palazzi, churches and monuments, which you can visit in your hire car, are nearby and are as ancient, several dating from the medieval period. ‘Two Households both alike in Dignity, In fair Vernoa, where we lay our Scene…’ (From the Prologue of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet). The tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers from rival families, is synonymous with Verona. Originally written by Luigi da Porto of Vienza in the 1520s, the story of the two families of Verona has inspired countless dramas, films and ballets. You can visit the Casa di Giulietta (Juliet’s house) in your hire car while in Verona, which you will find at No 27 Via Cappello. Crowds throng to see the simple façade, and to stand on the famous small marble balcony. You can also visit the run-down Casa di Romeo in your hire car, which lies a few streets away in Via Arche Scaligeri in Verona. Another place that you can visit in your hire car while in Verona are the Tombs of the Scaligeri, which you will find on Via Arche Scaligeri in your hire car. Beside the entrance to the tiny Romanesque church of Santa Maria Antica, once the parish church of the powerful Scaligeri family of Verona, lie a profusion of bizarre tombs of the one time rules of Verona. The Sant’Anastasia, which you will find on Piazza Sant’Anastasia in your hire car, is also worth a visit while in Verona. This huge and loft church was begun in 1290 and includes faded 15th century frescoes and carved scenes from the life of St Peter Martyr adorn its Gothic portal. Moving on, the Duomo in Verona, which you will find on Piazza Duomo in your hire car, was begun in 1139 and is fronted by a magnificent Romanesque postal carved by Nicolo. Another place to visit in your hire car while in Verona is the Teatro Romano on Rigaste Redentore. This theatre was built in the 1st century BC, little survives of the stage area, but the semicircular seating area is largely intact. It also offers great view over Verona. The Museo Archeologico, which you will also find on Rigaste Redentore in your hire car, is attached to the Teatro Romano by lift up the cliffs. The museum is housed in an old monastery and exhibits include mosaics, pottery, glass and tombstones. The Giardino Giusti, which you will find on Via Giardino Giusti in your hire car in Verona, is one of Italy’s finest Renaissance gardens. It was laid out in 1580 and, as with other gardens of this period there is a deliberate juxtaposition of nature and artifice at this garden in Verona. A final place that you can visit in your hire car while in Verona is the San Giorgio in Braida, which you will find on Lungadige San Giorgio in your hire car. This lovely domed Renaissance church in Verona was begun in about 1530 and the altar includes the famous Martyrdom of St George. Italy Car HireHome of opera, Ferrari and designers like Giorgio Armani, Prada and Gucci; Italy is a place of diversity and culture, all free to be explored in your hire car. From the snow capped peaks of the Alpes in the north, through to the unique and magical city of Venice in the northeast of Italy, whose streets are full of water, the central Tuscany region of Italy, full of evocative landscapes; peaceful and timeless, and the main wine making region of Italy; Florence, its capital, is a great art centre. Italy’s capital Rome is home of one of the greatest amphitheatres, the Colosseum, which was commissioned in AD 72, you will also find the Vatican City here in your hire car, the world capital of Catholicism and the world’s smallest state, occupying just 43ha (106 acres). The south of Italy is rich in archaeological remains, such as the famous Pompeii. Italy also includes the beautiful islands of Sicily and Sardinia, equally worth a visit in your hire car. See our links to Venice Car Hire, Florence Car Hire, Rome Car Hire, Naples Car Hire, together with Alghero, Cagliari, Olbia for Sardinia Car Hire and Catania and Palermo for Sicily Car Hire, for details of what you may see on a trip to these places in your hire car while exploring Italy.
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