Verona day trip from Milan: the 1-hour-13 Frecciarossa from €25.90, the Arena at €12, Juliet's House and walking tours from €30

💡 The Short Version: Take the Frecciarossa from Milano Centrale to Verona Porta Nuova: 1 hour 13 minutes, from €25.90, or the regional, 1 hour 52 minutes from €12.75. The Arena is 1.9 km, about 25 minutes’ walk, from the station. The Arena by day is €12 and closed on Mondays; on show days it closes early. Juliet’s House is €5 for the courtyard and €12 with the house, and must be booked online, even for free entry. The VeronaCard is €33 for 24 hours. Verona is a train day, not a tour day: walking tours from Verona itself start at €30. The 2027 opera season runs from June to 11 September and ends after the last train back to Milan. Or book now: the small-group history tour of Veronaad is from €35 for 2 hours, and the Arena, cable car and Juliet tourad from €69 (GetYourGuide).

Getting there

1 hour 13 minutes · Frecciarossa from €25.90 · regional 1 hour 52 minutes from €12.75

Fares are Trenitalia’s “from” fares for a second-class single; the Trenitalia app shows the exact fare for your date. Fast trains need a seat reservation, which the fare includes; regional trains do not. Trenitalia changes its timetable in December.

On a weekday in October the last Frecciarossa back leaves Verona at 21:02 and arrives at 22:15, and the last regional leaves at 21:43 and arrives at 23:35. A Verona and Sirmione day uses the same Frecciarossa line, which stops at Desenzano del Garda-Sirmione: see Lake Garda and Sirmione from Milan.

Verona is on the Milan to Venice line, and it is also a day trip from Venice, 1 hour 12 minutes by Frecciarossa: see Venice to Verona and Venice’s day trips. Venice itself is 2 hours 29 minutes from Milano Centrale; what to book before you go to Venice covers the city.

Tours

The tours from Verona itself suit a train visitor: they start in the city, so the train sets the timetable. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” price for one adult.

The 13.5-hour tour is the only one that leaves Milan with you; the other four meet in Verona. Check the listing for which entry tickets a booking includes: the Arena closes on Mondays, and Juliet’s House needs its own online slot.

What to see

Verona’s historic centre has been on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 2000, for its Roman town in a loop of the Adige, with the Arena, the Roman theatre and Piazza delle Erbe (whc.unesco.org). The order for a day: the Arena at opening, Juliet’s House at your slot, then the squares, with lunch and the VeronaCard sights between.

Piazza delle Erbe at dusk, with the Torre dei Lamberti above the market stalls. Photo: Orledio, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Arena by day

€12 · closed Mondays · allow 1 hour

The Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra is open Tuesday to Sunday 09:00 to 19:00 and closed on Mondays. On show days it closes early, with last entry 30 minutes before, and the Comune lists the closing times month by month. A ticket is €12, €9 for groups of 15 or more and over-65s, and €3 for ages 18 to 25 from EU countries and countries with reciprocal agreements. On the first Sunday of each month from November to March entry is €1; the first is 1 November 2026. The Arche Scaligere are free with a same-day civic museum ticket (museomaffeiano.comune.verona.it). Civic-museum tickets are sold online on a new platform from 1 October 2026, and the Comune’s pages say to buy there. Sites with “Arena”, “Verona card” or “Verona access” in the domain that sell the same tickets are not the Arena or the Comune.

The Roman Arena on Piazza Bra, Verona. Photo: José Luiz, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Arena at night

Opera from June to 11 September 2027 · stone-step seats from €22

The Arena Opera Festival’s 2027 season runs from June to 11 September, mostly Thursday to Sunday, starting at 21:30 in early June, 21:15 in late June and July, and 21:00 in August and September. The productions are Aida (in two stagings), Carmen, La Traviata, Nabucco and the ballet Romeo and Juliet, with gala evenings by Roberto Bolle and Friends on 8 and 21 July and Jonas Kaufmann on 8 August (arena.it).

Buy only from arena.it or the sellers it names. Performances start after the last Frecciarossa back to Milan, which leaves at 21:02 in the October timetable, so book a night in Verona.

Juliet’s House

Courtyard €5 · with the house €12 · online booking compulsory

The balcony is in the courtyard, reached from the Teatro Nuovo in Piazzetta Navona, not from Via Cappello. The courtyard ticket is €5 and the house €12. Online booking is compulsory, even for free entry. The house is open on Mondays 14:00 to 19:00 and Tuesday to Sunday 09:00 to 19:00 (casadigiulietta.comune.verona.it). Sites with “casa di Giulietta” and “tickets” in the domain are resellers, not the Comune.

The balcony in the courtyard of Juliet’s House, Verona. Photo: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The VeronaCard

24 hours €33 · 48 hours €38 · includes the city buses

From 1 September 2026 the VeronaCard is €33 for 24 hours and €38 for 48 hours, with the ATV city buses included. It gives free entry to the Arena, Juliet’s House, Castelvecchio, the Roman Theatre museum, the Lamberti Tower (the lift is €1 extra), the cathedral, Sant’Anastasia, San Zeno, San Fermo and others. It is not valid on the Aerobus or extraurban buses (visitverona.it). The Arena and Juliet’s House together are €24, so the card pays off only if you add several of the other sites. Buy it from visitverona.it; sites selling a “Verona card” under another domain are look-alikes.

What a day costs

Before you go

• Mondays: the Arena is closed; Juliet’s House opens at 14:00.
• Show days: the Arena closes early on opera days.
• Juliet’s House: book the slot online first.
• The last train: the Frecciarossa at 21:02 arrives in Milano Centrale at 22:15, and opera evenings finish later.
• Strikes: rail strikes are announced at short notice, and Milan public transport lists the dated days.

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