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Julietan hauta

Name: Julietan hauta
Address: 5 Via Luigi da Porto, Verona, Veneto, IT

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Mathia

November 13, 2019

At the former convent of San Francesco al Corso, where there are Juliet's tomb and museum of frescoes dedicated to John the Baptist Cavalcaselle. In the crypt, which is accessed from the east side of the cloister through a stone staircase, there is a red marble sarcophagus uncovered that traditionally hosted the mortal remains of the young Capulet. At the beginning of the fourteenth century to the dead suicide was not granted ecclesiastical burial, but in the case of Juliet authorities were no exception, consenting to the burial in that simple bed, even if devoid of coats of arms and inscriptions. It was in the sixteenth century, with the growth of the fame of the two lovers of Verona, the ecclesiastical authorities tried to eliminate the scandal, desecrating the grave, scattering the bones and transforming the sarcophagus into a container for the water well. Despite the neglect and abandonment of a wanted the legend continued to grow, and the tomb became a place of constant pilgrimages. He was honored by many famous people who went to Verona, in which Lord Byron, that "the tomb of Juliet, simple, open, with withered leaves around in the vast and desolate garden of a convent, it is sad sad as it was his love "and also by the Princess Marie Louise of Austria in 1822 (formerly Duchess of Parma and Piacenza), it did make some jewelry with fragments of stone taken from the sarcophagus. When in 1842 the nuns left the convent, the tomb had fallen into oblivion. The English novelist Charles Dickens, during a visit to the chapel described it as a "watering hole" and was very annoyed that his lie abandoned in a vegetable garden. It was only in 1937, as part of a vast work of museum display of the artistic heritage of the city, that the tomb was moved to the basement adjacent to the Cloister, where today it is visited by many tourists.