The house where Juliet lived: Casa di Giulietta:

The Balcony

Tales of unrequited love, romance & tragedy is a reminiscent eternal love story of Romeo Juliet. 2010 was the year when “Letters to Juliet” made it mark in the theatres. The flick was set in the beautiful Casa di Giuiletta- Juliet’s home. The house is centrally located in Verona at via Cappello. This was the house where the Capulet family resided. One can still get the feel from the antique coat-of-arms on the archway of the courtyard.

The best place in the house obviously throws light on Juliet’s balcony overlooking the courtyard. The next cynosure is the bronze statue of Juliet. Though the origin of thi statue in still shrouded in mystery, yet there is a popular thing that people do. They rub the right breast of the statue which is supposed to make your luck stars shine bright.

One will find innumerable sticky notes and graphiti on the walls of this romantic courtyard addressed to Juliet. The silver screen projection of this myth was great and indulging as is love!!!!!

Letters to Juliet!

But the reality check is “Is this actually the house of Shakespeare’s Juliet?” http://www.igougo.com/ reviwed that, “The house actually has no connection with Shakespeare's fictional characters. Although the house is old, the balcony was added in 1936 and it was declared to be Juliet's house to attract tourists. Local officials, determined to keep the myth alive, designated it to be the residence of the Capulets. It costs 4 Euros to visit. The house contains a sparse collection of Renaissance frescoes rescued from other demolished palaces, as well as the original bed from Zeffirelli's 1968 movie Romeo and Juliet. There is not a lot else!”

This this is an obvious tourist trap. No matter what millions of people across the globe come here to see the bronze statue of Juliet and rub her breast (for good luck in love I guess).
What is your take? Do you believe in this?

Have you heard about Pyramids in China?

Isn't this fabulous and astonishing? Yes, even i was startled. I was just reading a piece of research by Hartwig Hausdorf, a researcher in Germany. He passed some oh his hots from his photography archives taken during his trip to the Forbidden Zone in the Shensi Province in China. Hausdorf mentions the diaries of two Australian traders who, in 1912, met an old Buddhist monk who told them these pyramids are mentioned in the 5,000 year old records of his monastery as being "very old."

Hausdorf reports: "There are over 100 pyramids, made of clay, that have become nearly stone hard over the centuries. Many are damaged by erosion or farming. One pyramid is as large as the Pyramid of the Sun of Teotihuacan in Mexico (which is as large as the Great Pyramid of Giza). Most are flat topped, some have small temples on top. There is a stone pyramid in Shandong, about 50 feet tall. Some incorporate the golden proportion."