The “Duomo” Cathedral Complex in Verona is a continuous shrine of wonderful gems for anybody visiting fair Verona: facing the majestic 1187 AD facade take the left vaulted gallery towards a narrow picturesque street that will bring you to “Sant’Elena” 842 AD church. Inside you’ll see the original 4th Century AD mosaic floor of the first Christian worship site in Verona. Outside a commemorative stone plaque with an epigraph recall the historical moment when on 20th January 1320 Dante Alighieri gave here, beneath the Loggia ceiling, the famous Latin speech “Quaestio de aqua et terra”. Turn your back to St. Elena church and you’ll be close to enter into a magical blissful place: the “Chiostro dei Canonici”. It is a 1120 AD double arched cloister with red marble columns! One of the most beautiful locations for artistic photoshoots and meditation. Watch your steps as you’ll see the original paleochristian mosaic floors on your sides and Romanesque columns and headstones on the walls. The cloister is the access gate to the “Museo Canonicale”, a museum containing Roman holy items as well as renowned XII-XIX century paintings such as the 1700s “Portrait of Scipione Maffei” by Fra Galgario. Part of this complex includes the V century “Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona”: this Chapter library is worldwide considered the oldest still functioning library in the world and preserves the “Veronese Riddle”, an 8th Century parchment that constitutes the oldest existing document of the Proto-Italian Language. What a Marvel!

Not easy to find, at the bottom of an alley to the left of the cathedral facade. Cloister dun24eme with double colonnade. Peaceful and charming