Manuela Uber

What I suggest

Should you be in Verona for a few hours or for some days, let me guide you into a multi-sensory experience that introduces you to a new way of discovering.

After that, you can explore it on your own, look for your favorite spots, let emotions flow, and create your very special connection to Verona, as well as to your next destinations.

Traces of the multi-millennian past are at each corner, in each natural area, they are traces of the humans who lived and animated these places through the centuries, and reveal to us one after the other. Together, we find them, but at the same time we leave signs of our own passage.

“Cities are places of exchange...not only exchange of goods, but they are also exchanges of words, of desires, of memories” (Calvino).

The space we live in, even for a short time, interacts with our personal space; the city is alive, it welcomes us, it lets us move in. It’s up to us to interact with respect and to let a relation start: it could be love at first sight, a feeling which arises bit by bit, or a friendship that brings back memories from time to time.

I’ll invite you to pay attention to your sensorial perceptions so that you are at the center of a personal and unique experience. You will not be visitors or listeners only, you will be interlocutors.

Guided by my words, it will then be the trajectory of your gazes or touches to make you discover endless details and secrets. Every place has a soul with which we can get in touch, similar to what happens with people’s souls: with the proper time and mindfulness.

So let’s enter silently, as walking on tiptoe, listen to the sound of our steps that resonate in the backstreets, let’s enjoy the voices in the most lively squares, the river flowing and embracing the old town, let’s caress the stones of the most famous architectures, let’s smell perfumes and scents, and taste local flavors.

Or we can leave the historical center, walk into the nature and feel as it becomes the leading character, how it breathes; let’s admire the landscape and nature’s colours changing according to the seasons, which harmonize with those of the buildings in town, a sign of the deep relationship locals have always had with the city and its surroundings.

Or let’s visit an art gallery and admire how human hands have been able to create something that conveys messages and different levels of emotions.

When we devote time to ourselves and with the proper kindness and rhythmicity, we will be able to get in touch with the genius loci of Verona and its wonderful territory.