Casa di Giulietta, Historical civil building museum in Via Cappello, Verona, Italy
Casa di Giulietta is a medieval palace on Via Cappello in Verona with brick walls, a Gothic portal, and arched windows. The marble balcony was assembled from architectural fragments taken from the Castelvecchio Museum collection.
The building is a medieval tower-house first documented in 1351, when it housed the inn "del Cappello" owned by the heirs of Antonio Cappello. The hat emblem of that family on the keystone of the courtyard arch led 18th- and 19th-century scholars to link it wrongly to the Capulets. The Comune di Verona bought it in 1905, and in 1939 Antonio Avena completed its conversion into a house-museum.
The building rose to fame through its link to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, while Dante mentioned both the Montecchi and Capuleti families in his Divine Comedy. Visitors leave love messages on the walls in the courtyard, which has become a meeting point for couples from around the world.
The house museum requires advance online reservations through museiverona.com and operates from Tuesday to Sunday between 9:00 AM and 7:00 PM. The small courtyard can be crowded, so visiting early morning or late afternoon is recommended.
The balcony's parapet reuses a 14th-century stone slab from a Della Scala palace, widened with two side extensions carved to match its arches. The bronze statue of Juliet, by Nereo Costantini, was donated by the Verona Lions Club and placed in the courtyard on 1 June 1973.
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