Verona

In the summer of 2024 we passed Verona with pain in our hearts. It was simply too hot to discover a new city. After visiting Bérgamo in the late afternoon, we decided to move on to the Croatian Adriatic coast. Just before the Christmasholidays of that same year, my parents decided to sell their campervan with which we also traveled for years. Due to the costs we hesitated for a while initially and the van was already nearly sold. After some thoughts and a lot of feelings, we decided we could not let that happen, and bought the van ourselves. Just in time. Only two weeks later, just after Christmas, we went on a trip as the proud new owners of my parents' van. The final destination was Verona!! Kurt Hielscher published twelve photos from here and I will post the results gradually here. Let's just start with the mighty Piazza delle Erbe, the heart of the city.

Piazza delle Erbe, 1925. Photo: Kurt Hielscher vs. the 31st of December 2024. Photo: Casper Molenaar. The photo is taken from the Palazzo Maffei that houses a museum I didn't visit. For 5 euros, I only bought the ticket for the balcony to make the photo. On the left the Torre dei Lamberti, part of the Palazzo della Ragione.

Piazza delle Erbe with the Palazzo Maffei. From its roof, in between the statues, I got into the footsteps of Kurt Hielscher to rephotograph his photo. The eyecatcher on this photo is however the Torre del Gardello which is not accessible anymore. When I found out, I really was disappointed beacuse I thought Kurt Hielscher made his photo from here. Only as a second option I went into the Palazzo to find out that that was actually the place to be!

Stairwell within the Palazzo Maffei. I went all the way up to the roofbalcony with the viewpoint. It was quite a climb but not as intense as the the climb of the the Torre dei Lamberti with its 368 stairs.

At the balcony in between the statues.

In Verona, we stayed on campsite Corte Agricola Monrò, just south of the city center or half an hour by foot to the Arena at Piazza Brà. On December 30st we enjoyed the sunshine we lacked in The Netherlands for over two weeks during a late lunch at arrival. only after sunset, we went to the city center to explore the city. The next day I took the opportunity to rephotograph Kurt Hielscher's photos by bike before uniting with my family again.

The Arena photographed by Kurt Hielscher, probably from the roof of the Palazzo Barbieri, a municipality building that was closed ofcourse on the last two days of the year, so I didn't succeed in rephotographing this photo, unfortunately, because since that I have been in Verona, I even appreciate the beauty of this photo even more, ànd I recognize some of the places: Castel San Pietro at the upper left and then the Basilica di Sant' Anastasia and the Torre dei Lamberti.

Ponte di Castelvecchio and the Adige river. 

Castelvecchio seen from different angles. Later more.

Sunsetview on Verona from Castel San Pietro on the Basilica di Sant' Anastasia and again the Torre dei Lamberti.

Lunch at Corte Agricola Monrò filled with sunshine and goose and chicken (which we didn't eat).

Below: The last rays of sunshine from 2024, an unforgettable moment for the whole of the family.