Sino-Italian love culture festival held in Verona
25/9/2008 17:38
The Sino-Italian love culture festival was held yesterday in the northern
Italian city of Verona, co-sponsored by the municipal governments Verona and
east China's Ningbo city.
As the fictitious hometown of Romeo and Juliet,
leading characters in Shakespeare's famous play Romeo and Juliet, Verona is one
of the most ancient and beautiful cities in Italy.
Ningbo is also a city in
east China's Zhejiang province, where the Chinese classical romantic tragedy
Butterfly Lovers, or Liang Zhu, took place. The Butterfly Lovers is also known
as China's play of Romeo and Juliet.
A white marble statue portraying Liang
Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the two lovers who eventually turned into butterflies,
was placed in the square in front of the Juliet Museum in central Verona during
the festival.
Fifteen couples from Ningbo in Chinese-style costumes held a
romantic wedding in Verona, with blessing from the locals.
Ningbo and Verona
became sister cities in October 2005. A delegation of Verona visited Ningbo in
2007 and presented the city a bronze statue of Juliet.
Xinhua
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