Verona is first presented to the viewer with a view over Piazza delle Erbe, the Scaligero Bridge which crosses the River Adige and Piazza Bra, location of the Arena. Shakespeare set his most famous play, Romeo and Juliet, in Verona and Juliet’s House is one of the city’s main attractions. Although a false wall was added, the tradition of leaving love notes and touching the left breast of the bronze statue of Juliet in the courtyard continues today.
While Victor is busy with work, which includes a wine tasting in the Soave cellars of Rocca Sveva, Sophie meets Juliet’s Secretaries, volunteers who answer the letters addressed to Shakespeare’s heroine from across the globe and finds a fifty-year old letter hidden under a brick.
After meeting Claire and her nephew Charlie, they set off by car through the hills and cypress trees in the province of Siena, using Relais Borgo Scopeto, in Castelnuovo Berardenga, as a base. The search for Lorenzo, the elderly woman’s first love, takes the odd trio to Villa Arvedi, in the hamlet of Cuzzano, Grezzana, a majestic residence just outside Verona.
Charlie and Sophie decide to visit Siena. They walk through the alleys of the town, crossing Piazza dei Tolomei (dominated by the Church of San Cristoforo), Piazza del Campo, with the Torre del Mangia, and eat an ice cream at a table in Piazza San Giovanni, facing the Baptistery of San Giovanni, the Eastern façade of the Duomo of Siena.
The search for Lorenzo continues to Castelnuovo Berardenga, where it seems to come to an end in the small cemetery, in the hamlet of Vagliagli. However, the real Lorenzo is very much alive and will be found amidst the vines of the Caparzo estate in Montalcino.
Verona is first presented to the viewer with a view over Piazza delle Erbe, the Scaligero Bridge which crosses the River Adige and Piazza Bra, location of the Arena. Shakespeare set his most famous play, Romeo and Juliet, in Verona and Juliet’s House is one of the city’s main attractions. Although a false wall was added, the tradition of leaving love notes and touching the left breast of the bronze statue of Juliet in the courtyard continues today.
While Victor is busy with work, which includes a wine tasting in the Soave cellars of Rocca Sveva, Sophie meets Juliet’s Secretaries, volunteers who answer the letters addressed to Shakespeare’s heroine from across the globe and finds a fifty-year old letter hidden under a brick.
After meeting Claire and her nephew Charlie, they set off by car through the hills and cypress trees in the province of Siena, using Relais Borgo Scopeto, in Castelnuovo Berardenga, as a base. The search for Lorenzo, the elderly woman’s first love, takes the odd trio to Villa Arvedi, in the hamlet of Cuzzano, Grezzana, a majestic residence just outside Verona.
Charlie and Sophie decide to visit Siena. They walk through the alleys of the town, crossing Piazza dei Tolomei (dominated by the Church of San Cristoforo), Piazza del Campo, with the Torre del Mangia, and eat an ice cream at a table in Piazza San Giovanni, facing the Baptistery of San Giovanni, the Eastern façade of the Duomo of Siena.
The search for Lorenzo continues to Castelnuovo Berardenga, where it seems to come to an end in the small cemetery, in the hamlet of Vagliagli. However, the real Lorenzo is very much alive and will be found amidst the vines of the Caparzo estate in Montalcino.
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Gael García Bernal – Verona
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Juliet's House, Verona
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Juliet's House, Verona
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Christopher Egan, Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Gary Winick – Verona
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Fabio Testi, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Egan, Amanda Seyfried – Villa Arvedi, Grezzana (VR)
Summit Entertainment, Applehead Pictures
On a visit to Juliet’s house in Verona, Sophie finds a fifty-year old letter and decides to answer it. The writer, an English woman named Claire, then joins Sophie with her nephew Charlie and the trio set off to find the elderly woman’s first love.
