Where was Letters to Juliet filmed?

This gentle romance is essentially a love letter to a city, and that city plays itself with full storybook charm. The draw for travellers is the idea at its heart: that a place can be devoted to matters of the heart, with old letters, faded photographs and the simple wish to find someone again. It makes Verona feel less like a backdrop and more like a participant.

The story unfolds in Verona, in northern Italy, where the film begins in the courtyard of the Casa di Giulietta, the celebrated house with its balcony and its tradition of left-behind love notes. Elsewhere it lingers in the Piazza delle Erbe, the frescoed market square laid out on the old Roman forum, which becomes the film's picture of romantic Verona.

Set-jetters can easily fold both spots into a slow day on foot, since they sit within the compact old centre. Verona pairs naturally with the rest of the Veneto, an easy train from Venice or Lake Garda, making it a graceful stop on a wider northern-Italy itinerary built around piazzas, frescoes and long lunches.