Verona and Valpolicella
- Food
- Campagna Amica at the old slaughterhouse
- Church
- San Giovanni in Valle
- Music
- Teatro Ristori
- Farm stand
- Campagna Amica, Rione Filippini, Piazza Isolo organic market
- Sauna
- Terme di Giunone, Caldiero
- Sports
- Virtus Verona, Serie D
- Lodging
- Valpolicella
Crowd level: Mixed. Go early, or pick a weekday
Best season The 103rd Arena Opera Festival, 12 June to 12 September 2026, is over. Fondazione Arena's site is now listing a 2027 festival. Teatro Ristori's own season page runs 27 October 2026 to 30 April 2027. Read the house you mean.
A Roman city in a bend of the Adige, with the Arena on Piazza Bra and the Valpolicella hills to the northwest. The amphitheater is the famous night. The quieter doors are across the river, and the farm stays are in the hills, not on the Bra.
Worth knowing
Across the river
The city's Minor Hierusalem walk is the loop outside the Adige bend: San Giorgio in Braida, Santo Stefano, Santi Siro e Libera, San Giovanni in Valle, and Santa Maria in Organo. The tourism page says volunteers keep those doors Thursday to Sunday, 10:00 to 17:30, and that a paid guide needs a minimum of 12 people. Two walks leave Ponte Pietra, 10:00 and 14:30, each about two and a half hours.
The Arena ticket
Buy from Fondazione Arena. Their site names shop.arena.it, the call center +39 045 8005151, and the box offices at Via Dietro Anfiteatro 6/b and Via Roma 1. They tell you not to use resale sites. The 2026 festival dates are not a show you can still attend.
Which market
Piazza delle Erbe is the postcard. For a producer stall the city also names Piazza Isolo, organic, Tuesday and Thursday, 8 to 14. The covered Campagna Amica market is the Saturday and Sunday stop in Rione Filippini.
The short version
UNESCO inscribed the City of Verona in 2000 under criteria (ii) and (iv). Its own text says the city was founded in the 1st century B.C., flourished under the Scaliger family in the 13th and 14th centuries and as part of the Republic of Venice from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and kept monuments from antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. The pin on this page is the Arena, not a vineyard.
Food nearby
Campagna Amica at the old slaughterhouse
The city tourism page says that since May 2021 Coldiretti has run a covered market in the former slaughterhouse in Rione Filippini, about 700 square meters, Saturday and Sunday from 8 to 13, where local farms sell and visitors can taste. Piazza delle Erbe is the old daily market, Monday to Saturday 7:30 to 20:30, and the same page says the stalls sell fruit and vegetables and, in winter, mandorlato and pandoro, along with souvenirs.
A game nearby
Virtus Verona, Serie D
The club's own pages put the 2026/27 Serie D side at Stadio Gavagnin-Nocini, Via Montorio 112, not at the Bentegodi. A club note of 21 August 2026 lists season tickets: tribuna A/B €145, reduced €100, under 16 €50, VIP €200. A single-match price was not on that page. Hellas Verona at the Bentegodi is the famous ticket.
Farms and stands nearby
Campagna Amica, Rione Filippini
The city tourism page says local farms sell here and that you can taste. It names fruit, vegetables, cheese, and wine only for the wider set of km-0 markets, not a vendor list for this hall.
Season. Saturday and Sunday, 8 to 13, in the former slaughterhouse. The page says the market has run since May 2021. It does not print a closing month.
About 700 square meters, organized by Coldiretti, on the Adige in Rione Filippini. No cash-only rule was printed.
Official pagePiazza Isolo organic market
The same city page lists Piazza Isolo among the neighborhood markets and marks Tuesday and Thursday as the organic day.
Season. Tuesday and Thursday, 8 to 14.
Closer to the river loop than the Filippini hall. Piazza delle Erbe is the daily tourist market, not this one.
Official page
Staying in Valpolicella – snapshot (lodging only)
Last checked: 2026-10-16. We recommend; you book directly. Prices are nightly, low–high by season, with a source. “From” prices depend on your dates. Items we couldn't verify are marked †.
The quiet base: Farm stays in the Valpolicella hills, not a room on Piazza Bra. The pin on the Verona page is the Arena.
Inns, B&Bs, farm stays, guesthouses, campgrounds
- Agriturismo Igino
- Type.
- Farm stay
- Price (low–high).
- €90–130 with breakfast (own)
- Good for.
- Extra beds
- Book via.
- Airbnb found: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1288914289573909614 ; Booking: on the Negrar list (search)
- Why we like it.
- Vineyard farmhouse
- El Crear
- Type.
- Family farm B&B
- Price (low–high).
- Double from €110, single €80 (own)
- Good for.
- Family room, cribs, pool
- Book via.
- Booking found: https://www.booking.com/hotel/it/agriturismo-el-crear.en-gb.html
- Why we like it.
- Generations-old farm
- Le Croibe
- Type.
- Farm stay
- Price (low–high).
- €150 double (Jul–Aug €160), +€25 third bed (own)
- Good for.
- Medium
- Book via.
- Booking: not found (books direct)
- Why we like it.
- Valpolicella hillside
Vacation rentals
- Casa del Custode
- Sleeps.
- 6
- Price (low–high).
- From US$236/night, tourist tax included; crib $11.25/night; pool open May 15–Sep 30 (manager)
- Good for.
- Sleeps 6, owners live on the estate
- Book via.
- Vrbo found (no price without dates): https://www.vrbo.com/en-gb/p11262470
- Why we like it.
- Sleeps 6, owners live on the estate
Know before you book: Igino includes breakfast. El Crear lists a double from €110 and a single at €80. Le Croibe is €150 for a double, €160 in July and August, plus €25 for a third bed. Casa del Custode is from US$236 a night with the tourist tax included, a crib at $11.25 a night, and a pool open 15 May–30 September. Its Vrbo page loads and shows no price until dates are entered. None of these four prices was marked unverified on the check.
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Music
Teatro Ristori
The intimate house. Its own season page lists 27 October 2026 to 30 April 2027, with prose, jazz, and Ristori Baroque with I Virtuosi Italiani. After an opening concert at the Ristori, that baroque series continues at Spazio San Pietro in Monastero. The Arena is the exceptional summer amphitheater, run by Fondazione Arena, and the Teatro Filarmonico is their indoor hall. The 2026 Arena festival has ended. The foundation's site is listing 2027. This calendar link is the Ristori, not the Arena shop.
Official calendarA church
San Giovanni in Valle
The city's tourism page calls it a Romanesque parish from the Lombard era, 7th to 8th century, with a 12th-century church, cloister, and collegiate beside what remains of the walls of Theodoric and Berengar. The crypt has two old sarcophagi. Santa Maria in Organo, nearer the river, is the other quiet door: a Lombard-era church, later Benedictine, with Fra Giovanni da Verona's choir inlays and an unfinished Sanmicheli facade. Free entry. No tourist visit during a service.
The comune page gives via San Giovanni in Valle 40 and says visits yield to services. The Minor Hierusalem page gives number 36 and prints Thursday to Saturday 10:00–17:30, Sunday 12:30–17:30. Read both before you climb the hill.
Schedule sourceA sauna
Terme di Giunone, Caldiero
A thermal water park about ten kilometers east of Verona, not a public bath in the center. The operator describes historic thermal pools and a family water park with slides. Their hours page prints a 2026 high season from 31 May to 6 September, 9:30 to 19:30. That stretch is over. The town of Caldiero still shows an older summer clock. Check the operator before you go.
Via delle Terme 1, Caldiero. The wellness park at Villa dei Cedri in Colà di Lazise is a different door, and its own page limits the wellness center to people 18 and over.
House site