For years favorite tourist attractions of the mellow old city of Verona have been an ancient house and a tomb which local guides stoutly insist are the home and the last resting place of Juliet Capulet. In 1937 the success enjoyed by these relics of Shakespeare's famed heroine became too much for the town fathers of Vicenza, a town 30 miles east of Verona. Two ancient castles stood in likely juxtaposition on Vicenza's hills and the town fathers began beckoning the tourist trade with tales that Romeo and Juliet spent their romantic summers there....
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