Verona

No one thinks that Shakespeare visited Italy, of course, but several plays were set in the faraway magical land. Romeo and Juliet lived in Verona, and the playwright did not see anything like the real town in his mind, but the fact is that the beautiful place straddling the Adige River draws tons of tourists because of the star-crossed lovers. The river has several wires strung across it near the bridge we walked on, and literally hundreds of loving couples have pledged their love by hanging a marked lock onto a wire.

The balcony ascribed to the Capulet family had tourists on it when I was there, but shooting between tourists gave me an empty balcony. Near the balcony, one level down, the statue seen here of Juliet is the subject of many photographs. I imagined what she would look like, up there, and this is the result!