15 Verona Hotels Between the Arena, the Balcony and the Valpolicella
The palazzo where Mozart and Goethe are said to have lodged, the only hotel inside Juliet’s courtyard, a rooftop bar that looks straight onto the Arena, and villas among the Valpolicella vines.
Verona’s hotels sit on Roman gates, inside a Shakespearean courtyard and out among the Valpolicella vineyards. This list has the Due Torri, where the hotel says Mozart lodged in 1770 and Goethe in 1786, the Balcone di Giulietta, the one hotel inside the Casa di Giulietta courtyard, the Milano, whose roof bar looks straight onto the Arena, and the Villa Amistà, an art hotel in a fifteenth-century villa with Hirst and Kapoor in the public rooms.
The list is grouped by character, not ranked. Each hotel’s name links to its own site, so you see the current rate and book direct.
Palazzi and grand dames of the old town
Due Torri Hotel · Centro Storico / Piazza Sant’Anastasia
The Due Torri occupies a fourteenth-century palazzo on Piazza Sant’Anastasia, beside the Gothic basilica of the same name. The hotel’s own history says Mozart lodged here in 1770 and Goethe in 1786, when the building was the Albergo dell’Aquila inn. Enrico Wallner reopened it as a hotel in 1958 and furnished the rooms with period antiques; it later traded as the Due Torri Hotel Baglioni before joining the Duetorrihotels group.
Hotel Gabbia d’Oro · Centro Storico / Corso Porta Borsari
The Gabbia d’Oro is an eighteenth-century palazzo on Corso Porta Borsari, the line of the Roman decumanus, with original frescoes and beamed ceilings. It was converted into a small hotel in 1990, by its own account, a few steps from Porta Borsari, the first-century Roman gate, and from Piazza delle Erbe.
Hotel Accademia · Centro Storico / Via Mazzini
The Accademia dates its palazzo to the late fifteenth century. It stands on Via Scala, a lane off Via Mazzini, the pedestrian street linking Piazza Bra to Piazza delle Erbe.
Hotel Colomba d’Oro · Piazza Bra / Arena
The Colomba d’Oro has run as a hotel for just over a century, by its own count, and traces the building’s use as a lodging house to the 1600s. It sits on Via Cattaneo, one street behind Piazza Bra and a few minutes’ walk from the Arena.
NH Collection Palazzo Verona · Centro Storico / Via Adua (Castelvecchio)
The Palazzo Verona opened in 2012 as the Palazzo Victoria, the rebuilt successor to the Hotel Victoria at Via Adua 8, and was later renamed NH Collection Palazzo Verona. Roman remains uncovered on the site are displayed beneath glass floors in the public areas, and the hotel says the complex incorporates a fourteenth-century palazzo.
Shakespeare’s Verona
Relais Balcone di Giulietta · Centro Storico / Via Cappello (Casa di Giulietta)
The Balcone di Giulietta is the only hotel inside the courtyard of the Casa di Giulietta at Via Cappello 23; guests enter through the courtyard itself. It was formerly named the Relais de Charme Il Sogno di Giulietta. Some rooms look onto Juliet’s balcony, and the hotel promotes having the courtyard to itself after the museum closes.
Escalus Luxury Suites Verona · Centro Storico / Via Cappello (Casa di Giulietta)
The Escalus is named after Prince Escalus, the ruler of Verona in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It is a handful of suites on Via Cappello, steps from the Casa di Giulietta, and a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World.
Hotel Giulietta e Romeo · Piazza Bra / Arena
The Giulietta e Romeo stands on Vicolo Tre Marchetti, the lane directly behind the Arena. It is a long-running family hotel, popular with opera-festival audiences for the location.
Arena nights, Roman gates and the Corso
Hotel Milano & Spa · Piazza Bra / Arena
The Milano’s rooftop bar, the Terrazza Arena, looks straight onto the Roman amphitheatre from Vicolo Tre Marchetti, the lane behind the Arena. The roof terrace doubles as a pre-opera aperitivo spot during the summer festival.
Hotel Aurora · Centro Storico / Piazza delle Erbe
The Aurora stands on Piazza delle Erbe, laid out over Verona’s Roman forum, with a terrace above the market stalls that faces the Torre dei Lamberti. It is family-run.
Vista Verona · Centro Storico / Porta Leoni
Vista Verona occupies the building of the former Hotel Antica Porta Leona at Corticella Leoni 3, beside Porta Leoni, the Roman gate of the first century BC. Lario Hotels, the Lake Como family company behind Vista Palazzo Lago di Como, opened it as Vista Palazzo Verona, and it now trades as Vista Verona, with a rooftop terrace over the Arena and the old town, by the hotel’s account.
Hotel Indigo Verona – Grand Hotel des Arts · Corso Porta Nuova (between the station and Piazza Bra)
The Indigo occupies the former Grand Hotel des Arts at Corso Porta Nuova 105, the avenue running from Porta Nuova station to Piazza Bra. HNH Hospitality rebranded it under the Indigo flag with interiors themed on Verona’s art and opera, and describes the building as an early twentieth-century Liberty-style palazzo.
Villas in the Valpolicella and Garda hills
Byblos Art Hotel Villa Amistà · Corrubbio di Negarine (Valpolicella, outside town)
The Villa Amistà is a fifteenth-century villa in the Valpolicella whose sixteenth-century facade the hotel attributes to Michele Sanmicheli, Verona’s great Renaissance architect. Dino Facchini, the founder of the fashion house Byblos, opened it in 2005 as an art hotel with interiors by Alessandro Mendini. Works by Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Takashi Murakami and Vanessa Beecroft hang in the public rooms.
Hotel Villa del Quar · Pedemonte (Valpolicella, outside town)
The Villa del Quar is a sixteenth-century Valpolicella villa on Roman foundations, which the hotel says is listed as a national monument. The Montresor family runs it with its own vineyards and the Arquade restaurant, where Bruno Barbieri, later a MasterChef Italia judge, was chef.
Villa Cordevigo Wine Relais · Cavaion Veronese (Bardolino hills, outside town)
The Villa Cordevigo is an eighteenth-century Venetian villa set in the Villabella vineyards of the Delibori and Cristoforetti wine families, in the Bardolino hills toward Lake Garda. Its Oseleta restaurant holds a Michelin star, and a private eighteenth-century chapel stands in the grounds.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are these hotels ranked?
No. The groups sort them by character, and the order within each group carries no meaning.
What made a hotel interesting enough for this list?
A story. Every entry was a palazzo with a documented past, a house tied to the Romeo and Juliet story, a hotel on a Roman gate or beside the Arena, or a villa among the vines. Comfort alone did not qualify.
Why are there no prices?
Rates change daily and a priced list goes stale in a month. Each hotel’s name links to its own site, so you see the current rate and book direct.
When do these hotels fill up?
The Arena opera festival, from late June into early September, fills the hotels around Piazza Bra on performance nights and lifts rates across the centre. Vinitaly in April does the same for a week. Outside those, the old-town hotels book a few weeks out.
Which hotel puts me closest to the day trips on this site?
Most day trips from Verona run to Lake Garda and Sirmione, into the Valpolicella wineries, or by train to Venice, Padua and Mantua. The Piazza Bra and Corso Porta Nuova hotels sit closest to Porta Nuova station and the coach pickups.