I was visiting the city of Verona in Northern Italy, not only because it is a major tourist attraction, but because it is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The thing is, how does an entire city become a UNESCO World Heritage site. I have seen some structures within the city which might be worthy of being in the list themselves but in the case of Verona, the entire city is part of the list. Verona was included in the list because it is a wonderfully preserved example of continuous development of a Roman city all the way to the present. There are several structures here which come from different eras. Earlier in the day, I was able to see the Arena di Verona which came from the first century.

The next structure I would visit doesn’t come right after the arena, but it came much later. The Church of San Fermo Maggiore is a Catholic church that was built a thousand years after the arena. The church was worked on for several centuries after that and it was finally completed in the sixteenth century. The church is dedicated to Saints Firmus and Rusticus. The history behind these two saints isn’t very clear. It is said that they might not even have a connection with Verona but they were martyred in Verona. Whatever the case, the two have been claimed as children of Verona and they now a church dedicated to them.

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