Juliet's House, Verona, Italy

Juliet's house is a medieval civil building located in via Cappello in Verona, a short distance from the central Piazza delle Erbe. It is one of the Shakespearean places in Verona, together with Juliet's tomb and Romeo's house, linked to the universal and positive ideal of love and for this reason it has become the destination of a secular and popular pilgrimage, so much so that it is the most visited monument of the city.
The building that houses Juliet's house is a tower house of medieval origin, whose presence is attested for the first time in documents dated to 1351. In the tower house there was the "del Cappello" inn, owned by the heirs of Antonio Cappello, also demonstrated by the presence of the headdress coat of arms on the keystone of the arch that overlooks the internal courtyard. It was precisely because of the coat of arms of the hat that between the 18th and 19th centuries, when the search for places linked to Shakespeare's tragedy took place, the building was erroneously associated with the Capuleti family, or rather the Cappelletti present (together with the Montagues ) in Dante 's Purgatory Alighieri . Although ownership changed several times over the centuries, the building maintained its function as an inn, to which some artisan workshops were added.
In 1905 the Municipality of Verona purchased the building, which was partly sold in 1930 to allow the construction of the Teatro Nuovo. Finally, in 1939, the director of the civic museums, Antonio Avena, completed the preparation of the house-museum. His intervention mixed neo-medieval style decorations created from scratch on walls and ceilings together with elements from the civic collections, such as stones, columns, fireplaces, coats of arms and furnishings dating back to between the 13th and 15th centuries. The two red marble shelves were specially made for the balcony, while for the balustrade a medieval slab from the civic collections was recovered. Given the small size of the slab, two lateral extensions and lateral closures were made in white marble and Avesa stone, on which the same arches as the central part were reproduced.
The popularity of the house and the balcony grew considerably after the Second World War. It was in this period that the new director of the civic museums, Licisco Magagnato, following the reform of Castelvecchio (which saw him as the protagonist together with the architect Carlo Scarpa ), decided to address the theme of the house-museum. The route was reordered and the rooms placed on the five levels completed with a nucleus of medieval works, including detached frescoes from the late 14th century, furnishings and other objects from the civic collections. Finally, on 1 June 1973, the bronze statue of Juliet, a work by Nereo Costantini donated by the Lions Club of Verona, was placed in the courtyard, marking the reopening of the civic museum.

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