Juliet's tomb is a sarcophagus of red marble ages 13-14, located in the crypt of the former Capuchin monastery in Verona. Today it is one of the most popular tourist attractions of the city to which thousands flock lovers from around the world who want to see the tomb of the legendary heroine of Shakespeare's plays.

The first mention of the tomb appeared in a story by Luigi da Porto in 1524, who wrote that "one of the vaults of the temple was an ancient burial place of all kinds Cappelletti, and there lay a beautiful Juliet" .  Immediately after the publication of this story to the nameless sarcophagus started this pilgrimage, which at the insistence of the authorities was only stopped by the middle of the 16th century - the tomb turned into a water storage tank .  For the next two and a half centuries, the sarcophagus was forgotten and abandoned, but in 1807 the band released the novel Germaine de Stael "Karina" in which the author mentioned in passing the tomb of Juliet, situated in Verona .  In society there is a new wave of interest in this place, which does not cease to this day .  Passionate fans of Shakespeare and "Romeo and Juliet" in the memory of chipped pieces of the sarcophagus, and one of its fragments, even manufactured jewelry for Empress Marie-Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon I .  This, of course, could not but have a negative impact on the preservation of the tomb .  In 1868 it was moved from the crypt to the wall of the old church and built over it a portico with arches .  Even three decades later we established near the ancient tombstones and fragments of columns, and in 1907 near the portico appeared a marble bust of Shakespeare .  Finally, in the second half of the 1930s, when the screens came the film of George Cukor's "Romeo and Juliet", the sarcophagus was moved inside the church .  Soon, there was established a mailbox for letters to Juliet .  Incidentally, the messages do not go unanswered - they are responsible caretaker of the monastery complex Ettore Soliman, a former initiated the transfer of the tomb .  In 1970 the church building was established a small museum of frescoes and the tomb of Juliet herself became a museum piece .