Verona, June 27, 2011
Spend almost all day on the bus.
下午抵达意大利的维罗纳。 This small town of only 300,000 people is famous.
Verona
Verona
Verona, which means "very elegant city" in Latin, is the most ancient Romanized city in Italy. It also has another nickname – the City of Love.
This love refers to love. Whose love is? Romeo and Juliet, of course. Although some people believe that the original version of Shakespeare's story of Romeo and Juliet took place in another beautiful ancient city of Siena, Verona seized the opportunity early and took the lead in sculpting a life-size bronze statue of Juliet in a small courtyard in the ancient city, and built a Juliet balcony on the small building next to it as a rendezvous for Rojou.
Of course, millions of tourists every year don't care about authenticity, and there is a rush of people every day.
Walk into the small courtyard
The walls are full of mountain alliances and sea oaths
It is said that touching Juliet's right breast brings beautiful love, so it is touched shiny. I also saw the stitches reach out and touch it closely. In front of everyone, it was still a little embarrassing.
Juliet
The hospital is full of tourists
The story of Romeo and Juliet is not a happy comedy ending, but a tragedy. The reason why people love so much is that their love is truly undying and embodies the greatness of human love. Interestingly, the depiction of love in literature and art is focused on the love period, that is, the best stage of life. As for getting married, it seems that it is difficult to enter the eyes of writers. Even if there were, most of them were just another play of a completely different nature.
A modern Juliet?
途经一座巨大的古罗马圆形剧场，也是维罗纳的著名景点。
Ancient Theater
Ancient Theater
Ancient Theater
In the summer of 1914, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the opera master Verdi, the Italian tenor Ginatello and the theater manager Rovato, decided to hold a music festival to stage Verdi's opera "Aida", which amazed all audiences with its excellent acoustics and visual impact. The Amphitheater of Verona has since become the largest amphitheater in the world, and it still exists for more than 90 years.
Unexpectedly, when I stayed in the small hotel that night, I saw another performance.
This quaint inn has a small balcony that protrudes from each room and can only accommodate up to three people. At night, extremely tired, ready to sleep. I didn't expect that a few foreigners on the balcony downstairs were drinking, laughing and laughing, and their voices were loud and non-stop. It's almost 12 o'clock, and there is still no sign of the end. In addition, the weather is hot and humid, which makes it even more difficult to sleep. I couldn't bear it anymore, so I leaned out of the window and asked them to be quiet. They simply ignored it and continued to babble hahahaha.
What about the civilized politeness of the legendary Europeans?
June 28, 2011 Venice Leaning Tower of Pisa
"Like a boatload of fragrant fruit, sailing into the canals of Venice. O delicate man, enter my desolate city. "When I sailed into Venice on a boat, the water was shining, the cool breeze was XiXi, and Verlaine's poems came to mind.
Venice
Venice
Venice
Despite its desolation, Venice is bustling with activity. The only big city in the world that doesn't have a car, the river is the road, and the boat is the car.
The first stop is Piazza San Marco in the heart of the city. The ground guide was a chubby Chinese man who spoke with a lot of humor. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "Everyone, pay attention, this is St. Mark's Square, and some tourists go back and say that they have arrived in Marco Polo Square." Remember, this has nothing to do with Polo!
St. Mark's Square
I didn't enter St. Mark's Basilica, but I just walked around the square, surrounded by almost all kinds of shops selling souvenirs and cafes. Many of the stalls are covered with various masks, and they look quite delicate. Bought two butterfly-shaped ones. We don't have masquerade balls, this thing is useless, it can only be hung in the study as a souvenir.
Each color mask
Drawing
Coffee shop band
Square café seat
Black man selling counterfeit designer bags
Up and down the narrow streets, visit a must-see for tourists: glassmaking. Live performances blow all kinds of glassware, a Venetian specialty, with a variety of shapes and colors. It's just that the temperature in the handicraft workshop is very high, so hurry up and escape.
Glassware explained
Produce a show
To get to Venice, you have to take a gondola, a boat with its bow and stern raised high. A one-person or two-person or three-person band is available as standard to fully experience Venice on board. Of course, this comes at an additional cost. We didn't have musicians on the boat, but there was a couple in love on the boat next to us, and a violinist was playing. We walked together for a while, and we enjoyed it across the boat.
boater
叹息桥也是一个景点，桥的一头是总督府，相当于现在的法院，另一边是监狱。 After the prisoner was sentenced, he walked across the bridge and sighed and entered another world. It's a bit like our legendary Nai He Bridge, but there is no Meng Po soup here, after all, it's not all life and death.
Bridge of Sighs (picture from the Internet)
There is a story about a young man who was imprisoned and saw a man and a woman kissing on a gondola through the bars. If you look closely, the woman is her lover. He cried out in anger, but no one could hear him, and he slammed his head against the wall again and again until he died. Blood smeared the wall and killed his life, but it was more than a helpless thing!
A famous song comes to mind. At the beginning of 1851, Verdi completed the entire music of the opera Rigoletto in 40 days. Rigoletto premiered in Venice on March 31, 1852. In order to surprise the audience at the premiere, Verdi did not hand over the score of the famous song "Fickle Woman" to the actors until the day before the performance. Sure enough, the premiere was repeatedly interrupted by cheers and applause from the audience. "Rigoletto" and "Fickle Woman" spread all over Italy, and they are still sung today.
You might as well take a look at the lyrics: "Woman, love to change hexagrams, like feathers floating in the wind, constantly changing her mind, constantly changing her tone." It looks cute, and there is a set of kung fu. One with tears, one with a smile. Women love to change hexagrams, water-based poplars are out of tune, and they can't guess what is in their hearts. Hey! I can't do anything about her, I can't coax her. If you believe her, you're a fool. With her, you can't tell the truth. Love is intoxicating, and it's too lonely to live up to your youth. O woman, love is ....... ”
It is not only women who are fickle, but also the water of Venice.
Venice is located in a lagoon that is facing extinction due to global warming, as the water level rises every year and the city of Venice sinks to varying degrees. It was predicted that Venice would cease to exist by the end of the century. St. Mark's Square, on a low level, is flooded many times a year. There is no more way than to build costly and controversial flood gates.
Will the splendor of Venice disappear one day? Perhaps, before the end of the century, people have found a way to save Venice. Hope.
Venice
Venice faces potential dangers, and the more intuitive danger is the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
pizza
It's a passing attraction, stop for an hour and take pictures. Although there are several typical medieval buildings in the vicinity, none of them are as eye-catching as this tower. Contrary to what people think, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, built in the early 12th century and more than 800 years ago, did not lean later, but began to lean halfway through its construction. But instead of demolishing and rebuilding, the Italians, full of creativity and imagination, continued to complete it. At the beginning of the last century, in order to prevent it from constantly leaning, people appropriately pumped soil under the base of the tower in the opposite direction to make it basically stable.
Pisa
Today, the top of the tower has been tilted 3.5 meters to the east. Some people tried to straighten it up, but there was strong opposition from the Pisan people, who loved the unique architecture in the world, not to mention the good annual tourism income. If it is established, there may be no one to come. Pisadians know the psychology of tourists.
The most precious thing in the world is unique, even if it grows crooked melons and cracked dates, as long as no one can match it, it is also a landscape.
Woman on the grass
Castello Pisa
pizza
The ancient city of Pisa