Verona City Breaks

Verona City Breaks - Steeped in history
Genoa weekend breaks are often overlooked in the rush to visit the classic Italian city break destinations of Venice and Rome. Yet Genoa city breaks feature one of the finest and largest medieval old towns in Europe: a wonderfully evocative, atmospheric labyrinth of medieval lanes climbing steeply from an ancient port rich in history and culture. Genoa's finest churches and palaces match those of Pisa and Florence. As well as renaissance splendour, short breaks in Genoa also offer an entertaining choice of museums, a healthy cultural agenda, and superb art galleries housed in beautiful historic buildings. Like the southern city of Naples, weekend breaks in Genoa offer a particularly good quality and choice of cafes, bars and restaurants. Genoa city break shopping includes one of Europe's finest food markets, superb traditional Italian grocery stores, terrific antiques shops and classy boutiques to rival Milan. Being the birthplace of pesto and Christopher Columbus and also the original driving force behind Italian football, Genoa deserves to be much better known that it is.

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Short Breaks In Verona – Classic architecture
Verona is the provincial capital in Veneto. The ancient town and the centre of the modern city are in a loop of the Adige River near Lake Garda. A weekend break explores the Mittel-European edge to Verona’s architecture with The Arena – largest Roman amphitheatre in northern Italy – the most obvious sign of the ancients, dominating the entrance to the thumb-shaped old town, framed by the serpentine Adige River, stretching out from piazza Brà. The Ponte Scagliero today holds a museum with works by Pisanello, Veronese and Tintoretto, medieval frescoes and sculptures, and weapons and jewellery. Immerse yourself in culture and history during a Verona city break.

Verona City Breaks – Romance and wine!
The heart of the city is formed by the adjoining squares piazza delle Erbe and piazza dei Signori, a short walk north-east from piazza Brà. Nowadays, the city is an important trade centre and more goods now pass through its old streets than the port of Genoa. The perfect city break destination for wine lovers, the city’s wealth of Valpolicella and Soave region vines rise up on either side of Verona, which plays host to Vinitaly, the country’s top wine fair. Olives, too, grow in abundance in the hills to the north, east and west. The city is, of course, famous the world over as the setting of William Shakespeare’s story of Romeo and Juliet. Verona: the ideal place for a romantic city break.