"I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave... A grave? Oh no! a lantern, slaughter'd youth!(...)For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes This vault a feasting presence full of light"

(William Shakespeare:Romeo e Giulietta; act V scene III)

The convent complex of San Francesco al Corso dates to the thirteenth century. In 1935, Antonio Avena, director of the civic museums, opened to the public the so-called “tomb of Juliet”.

This site, according to legend, is where the sarcophagus holding the bodies of Romeo and Juliet was placed, and it naturally became a tourist attraction.

The annexed “G.B. Cavalcaselle” Fresco Museum, inaugurated in 1975, houses fresco cycles from Veronese buildings dating from Medieval times through the sixteenth century as well as nineteenth-century sculptures, while the church of San Francesco houses grand-scale works on canvas dating from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.