Amateur Traveler episode 855. Today the amateur traveler talks about wineries and gardens,

a star fortress and castles, cliffs and lemon trees as we go to Lake and

castles, castles, and lemon trees as we go to Lake Garda in Italy

and the Verona countryside.

This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler.

Let's talk about Lake Garda.

I'd like to welcome the show Valeria Biasi, who is a certified guide for Verona at Verona Tours.com and strangely enough she's come to talk to us about

Verona and that region of Italy. Valeria welcome to the show.

Oh grater Chris I'm happy to be here.

And I think you probably already established for people that your connection with Verona is, you're from there.

Oh yes, I call myself a very local guide.

Born and raised in Verona.

And actually, I'm delivering tour since the year 2000 so I call myself also a

very seasoned local guide.

Excellent and why should someone come to Verona? Oh, Verona is somehow

unexpected as a city. I know you covered Verona city already in a couple of your

episodes, but in spite of that, Verona is still unexpected. So I would say that the majority of people that are welcome, including this morning I was giving a tour to guys from

let me see they were from I think Daytona Beach in Florida and they said oh we did not expect the runner to be so nice and

charming you know what we don't have the icons I always say we don't have the icons, we don't have the David Bank, okay? We don't have the dorm of St Peter in Rome, but we are a very Italian city with all the layers of the history and the geography and the lifestyle, let me say. We are less less busy we don't live on tourism so as you stroll in

our streets you see a lot of locals there's a music festival on this very afternoon in Verona City and it's very lived in it's very lived in and we

don't live on tourism and so there are tourists but I think they appreciate these local vibes let's say.

Okay and to put it on a map we're in the Veneto so in the region near Venice but we're in the Veneto, so in the region near Venice, but we're in the far west part of that region.

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