Casa di Romeo, Medieval palace in Verona, Italy.
Casa di Romeo is a 14th-century brick residence on Via Arche Scaligere, built on three sides around a courtyard. A battlemented wall with the entrance portal separates the courtyard from the street; only the ground-floor loggia facing the portal survives, the other two having been walled up. Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance windows open in the brick facades, and the right-hand block still carries its original battlements.
The house was the residence of Cagnolo Nogarola, of the Nogarola family of French descent, not of the Montecchi. It was later confiscated by Cangrande I della Scala and returned to the Nogarolas after his dynasty fell. In the 15th century the Nogarolas sold it and the complex was divided among several owners. In the 1930s it was given to Verona's literary society for a planned Shakespeare museum, never opened because of the Second World War.
The building is strongly associated with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, drawing literary enthusiasts from around the world. Its facade and courtyard have become central to how visitors experience the famous story in Verona.
The building is private and closed to visitors, so the courtyard and the arched ground-floor loggia can only be seen from Via Arche Scaligere, past the battlemented wall. The brick facade with its pointed stone portal and dark double doors faces the street, a short walk from the Arche Scaligere monuments.
The building was given to Verona's literary society in the 1930s for a planned Shakespeare museum, a plan halted by the Second World War; it later served as a stable and is now privately owned and closed to visitors. The right-hand wing still carries its original battlements.
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