Hello! Today I'd like to post an article about Juliet's house. I think many of you has already know who's Juliet and her romantic story
....Romeo and Juliet. Everyone knows the basic plot of this story -- boy and girl fall in love
and die in the end. Some other stuff you should know is this: In this
story there are two families, the Montagues and the Capulets. They hate
each other. Romeo is in one family and Juliet is in the other. So they
have a "forbidden love" because the families hate each other but Romeo
and Juliet love each other. This play is one of Shakespeare’s tragedies.
The whole story takes place in the city of Verona, Italy.
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| House of Juliet |
Cassa di Giulietta
In Verona,
a house claiming to be the Capulets' has been turned into a tourist
attraction. It features the balcony, and in the small courtyard, a
bronze statue of Juliet.
It is one of the most visited sites in the town. The metal of its
chest is worn bare due to a legend that if a person strokes the right
breast of the statue, that person will have good fortune.
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| Juliet's Wall |
Many people write their names and the names of their beloved ones on the
walls of the entrance, known as Juliet's wall. Many believe that
writing on that place will make their love everlasting. After a
restoration and cleaning of the building, it was intended that further
writing should be on replaceable panels or white sheets
placed outside the wall. It is also a tradition to put small love letters on the walls (which is
done by the thousands each year), which are regularly taken down by
employees to keep the courtyard clean.
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| Club di Giulietta |
Since the 1930s, letters addressed to Juliet keep arriving in Verona. As
of 2010, more than 5,000 letters are received annually, three quarters
of which are from women. The largest single group of senders are
American teenagers. The letters are read and replied to by local volunteers, organized since the 1980s in the
Club di Giulietta (Juliet Club), which is financed by the City of Verona.
The club has been the subject of a book by Lise and Ceil Friedman and
is the setting for a 2008 book by Suzanne Harper and a 2010 USA movie,
Letters to Juliet.
#fyi I've watched
Letters To Juliet. It's so breathtaking. A-must-watch-one.
For further read about Juliet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet
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