Where it was filmed 'Love in the Villa'

In Love in the Villa the main character is Verona, immediately defined as the city of love, eternally linked to the literary figure of Juliet and her tragic fate as narrated by Shakespeare. Romantic Julie (Kat Graham) is inspired by her passion for the play to set off on this long-awaited journey to the city in Veneto despite her recent break up.

She lands at the Valerio Catullo airport in Verona and continues on to the romantic apartment she has rented in an ancient villa. The lodging is in the famous courtyard of Juliet’s house in via Cappello and looks onto the balcony which tradition holds is where Shakespeare’s heroine leant to talk with her beloved Romeo. However, the apartment has also been rented to Charlie (Tom Hopper) an English businessman passionate about wine. Their stormy first meeting gives way to a shared discovery of the city.

Julie and Charlie stop several times at the statue of Juliet, situated in the courtyard of the house-museum (visitors touch its bosom for good luck) and the perimeter wall where love letters are left.

The pair wander the city centre passing by the places of greatest interest: piazza delle Erbe, where Julie throws a coin into the fountain of Madonna Verona; piazza Bra; Juliet’s tomb in the ex-convent of San Francesco al Corso; the Arena of Verona; and cross Roman-era ponte Pietra.

In some sequences, Julie and Charlie spend an afternoon on the shores of lake Garda, with several glimpses of the villages of Bardolino and Torri del Benaco. Later they go to a reception organized in the residence of the winemaker Carlo Caruso, in reality Villa Giona, in Cengia di Nogarine, San Pietro in Cariano (Verona): this elegant 16^th century villa has a large Italian garden. Caruso shows Julie his prized wine in the Cantine Tommasi in the municipality of Pedemonte di Valpolicella.