Magical Italy: Stories of Verona - Reality or fantasy?

Spending some days in one of many resorts in the centre of Verona, is actually a excellent approach to dive into its history and know its legends: some stories already made the tour of the world, like the one of Romeo and Juliet, and others that the people of the city gladly tell to the tourists, curious to get to understand the city they are visiting.

Both in the centre and in the nearby periphery you can listen interesting stories: being in a hotel in San Michele Extra, for example, you might be capable to listen to the story of the Montorio Castle, which is stated to hide a book of command, while in the resorts in the centre of Verona you are likely to hear tales regarding the arena and other historical locations.

The books of command were stated to be very common in the past times, however the story goes that they've been destroyed along the centuries by the priests, who burned them: the story goes that they were full of magic formulas, and possessing them you'd have been capable to command the elements, fly, discover treasures...it would have been like getting some superpowers. One of the very last book of command which have survived to the fires, then, would be in the surgeons of the castle; the surgeons, though, would also hide a passage which would bring to the arena in the city centre: the hidden passage could be several kilometres long, and its entrances are unknown along with its constructor.

The legends of the city centre, of course, focus around the majestic arena, telling that it would have been constructed in only 1 night: the people of Verona, actually, desired an arena in their city, and a man condemned to death, in his final night, receive a visit of the devil, who proposed to build an arena that night in change of his soul. This would have saved his life, and the man accepted: but as soon as he saw the demons working he repented, and spent the night praying Our Lady to save his soul. Some mins prior to the dawn Our Lady, feeling a truthful repentance, satisfied the man?s prayer and made the bells ring the Angelus melody: the demons ran away at that sound, despite the fact that they still hadn?t finished their work. Hence, the arena remained incomplete, in order that the devil could not have the soul of the man, however the work done was already enough to save his life.

Then, there?s the huge rib hang from an arch in Piazza delle Erbe, and no one is aware of whose rib it really is: perhaps a pre-historical animal? Last only, because everybody already knows the story, there?s the legend of Romeo and Juliet, which tells the story of the unlucky love of the young children of two rival families, who died for their love: the story gets confounded in between historical past and legend, handing down stories and still showing the areas in which one of the most famous love story on the planet would have happened.

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