Just off Via Giuseppe Mazzini, central Verona's main shopping street, is the Casa di Giulietta. Never mind that Romeo and Juliet were fictional characters with no resemblance to Veronese nobility, and that there’s hardly room for two on the narrow stone balcony. Romantics flock to this 14th century house to add their lovelorn pleas to the graffiti on the courtyard causeway and rub the right breast of the bronze statue of Juliet for better luck next time.