Verona

As a city, Verona does not have much, especially when compared to the big hitters. It has an old Roman stadium, but nothing compared to the Colisseum. It has a tower too, but it's not as big or nearly as famous as Pisa's. It has a castle, but Milan's outsizes it by a good amount. It has a few churches, but not as numerous nor as significant as Florence's. In short, Verona does a lot of things, but none as well as other cities.

It's largest distinction is that it is home to the oldest working stadium in the world. That Roman stadium is still being used today as an opera house and for musicals. So it's in far better condition than the Colisseum, and one can clearly see the effciency of design used to get people in and out quickly. It probably takes five minutes to fill and evacuate that thing. Verona is also the setting for Romeo and Juliet, and they have an attraction called Juliette's House, even though it was never lived in by a Capulet. It is interesting to see however as the walls of the courtyard entering it are covered by layers and layers of graffiti to look like some superdense Jackson Pollock paint spattering. I'm sure this thing is worth millions of dollars to a modern art museum. It's a collective effort of tens of thousands of people who visit the site and mark the walls.

That being said, Verona is not a place I would want to visit again. I saw everything of interest to me in the few hours I was there, and still had time for lunch. It certainly does not seem like an Italian town and has a much slower pace to it. Maybe it would be a relaxing tourist destination. Anyways, Venice promises to be much more interesting.