Tomba di Giulietta, Sarcophagus in San Francesco al Corso complex, Verona, Italy

Tomba di Giulietta is a rectangular stone sarcophagus with a shallow basin interior, set low to the ground in the crypt of the former San Francesco al Corso monastery. Its rough rim and sides are built from pale tan, cream and rusty brown blocks; white flowers with green stems lie inside. The sarcophagus dates from the 13th–14th centuries and is made of red marble.

The sarcophagus was first linked to Juliet in Luigi da Porto's 1524 novella; pilgrimage grew so intense that in 1548 the friars turned it into a water container. In 1868 it was moved from the garden to the old church wall under an arched portico, and in 1898 it was surrounded with fragments of ancient tombstones and columns. After George Cukor's 1936 film it was placed in the church crypt.

The name comes from Luigi da Porto's 1524 novella, which first placed Juliet's tomb in the Capuchin monastery; pilgrims soon came to the nameless sarcophagus. In 1548 the friars turned it into a water container to stop the visits. Since 2000 the cloister has hosted the summer festival Opera in Love, pairing Shakespeare's words with Verdi, Puccini and Mozart.

The sarcophagus sits in the crypt of the former San Francesco al Corso convent, now the Museo degli affreschi "G.B. Cavalcaselle"; the cloister hosts the Opera in Love festival on Mondays in summer. The stone lies low, so visitors look down into the shallow basin, where flowers are often placed.

In 1548 the spiritual authorities turned the sarcophagus into a water container to stop pilgrims visiting it; Girolamo dalla Corte saw it by the friars' well in 1550. Fragments were later chipped off for jewellery, including by Maria Luisa of Austria. Dickens was shown it as a water tub by a woman who called it "La tomba di Giulietta la sfortunata".