When you visit the splendid city of Verona, one of the mandatory stops is certainly Juliet's house, the character immortalized by William Shakespeare's tragedy. Just go to Via Cappello and enter a passage where the walls are totally covered with love notes, signatures, and phrases from lovers passing through. From the passage, you access a courtyard where the famous balcony stands out on the facade of the annexed fourteenth-century building. Who can't imagine the romantic dialogue of the two lovers in the moonlight, seeing this small balcony? In reality, however, this is a fake! The Capulet houses were not located here, but near the bank of the Adige River. In the early 1900s, important work was done to prevent river flooding, and some medieval houses that hindered the construction of new banks had to be demolished. From the ruins of these buildings, a small Gothic balcony was saved; the then director of civic museums, Antonio Avena, had it placed in the courtyard of the tower house of the Cappello family, recently acquired by the municipality of Verona to become a Museum: and so Juliet's balcony was born. The Cappello were spice merchants who developed their dwellings here, first with two adjacent medieval towers and subsequently with another construction. The courtyard was originally larger and did not have the two sixteenth-century additions that now house a souvenir shop and the foyer of the Nuovo theater, as well as a condominium from the early 1900s.