Italy Guide
The Veneto
The Duomo
Opening time: March– Oct Mon– Sat 9.30am–5.30pm, Sun 1.30–5.30pm; Nov– Feb Tues– Sat 11am–1pm & 1.30–4pm, Sun 1.30–5pm
Price: €2.50
Verona's red-and-white-striped Duomo lies just round the river's bend, past the Roman Ponte Pietra. Consecrated in 1187, it's Romanesque in its lower parts, developing into Gothic as it goes up; the two doorways are twelfth century – look for the story of Jonah and the whale on the south porch, and the statues of Roland and Oliver, two of Charlemagne's paladins, on the west. In the first chapel on the left, an Assumption by Titian occupies an architectural frame by Sansovino, who also designed the choir.