Verona went all out, but waited a little while before doing so. It was late November before we saw any signs of Christmas arriving in the city. The signs that we saw were the beginnings of a Christmas market in the piazza where Dante resides looking disapporivingly at whatever is below: he spent most of December giving condescending looks to the Christmas tree sponsored by confectioners Bauli from his majestic plinth.
Anyway the reason we discovered this happy news that Christmas had arrived in Verona was because we were on a tour of Roman Verona that happened to take us directly through the piazza. No doubt we'd have found it in good time ourselves, but still, it was a nice addition to our little tour of all the things the Romans did in the city.
Our tour had started on the Postumian Way, the road originally built by the Romans. We met at the Arco dei Gavi which was the gate to the outer ring of the city (for those of you that know Verona, it has been moved because it wouldn't make too much sense to have the gate facing the river...). Anyway but a few days later, the Postumian Way was laced with fairy lights and sparlking blue balls.
It was funny to see Roman Verona together with commerical Verona in perfect, if a litle incongruous, harmony. I felt I had to jump.
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