Verona

Verona is the rare famous Italian city that has not priced out the people who want to live in it. Everyone knows the name, the Roman arena that still fills for opera under the stars, the balcony the world insists was Juliet's, the rose-colored medieval streets curling inside a loop of the Adige river. And yet, unlike Florence or Venice, Verona remains a livable, affordable working city. It carries its fame lightly, and that is its secret.