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Verona
Italia · Roman province·Italy·Founded 89 BCE (Roman municipium)
Prosperous northern-Italy city on the Adige. Its arena, built around 30 CE, was already old when Trajan died.
A living city of around 258,000; the Roman arena still hosts a major open-air opera festival each summer, within a UNESCO-listed historic centre.
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