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Verona Opens Juliet's Balcony For Weddings The 13th century mansion of the Cappello family — believed to be the Capulets of William Shakespeare's tragic play Romeo and Juliet — has for years been a place of pilgrimage for lovers, who have scrawled messages on its walls. Now Verona's town council is offering it as a place to get married.

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Verona Opens Juliet's Balcony For Weddings

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The 13th century mansion of the Cappello family — believed to be the Capulets of William Shakespeare's tragic play Romeo and Juliet — has for years been a place of pilgrimage for lovers, who have scrawled messages on its walls. Now Verona's town council is offering it as a place to get married.

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