Fondazione Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona

Where knowledge meets emotion.

The first page of our history was written over 1500 years ago. To write the pages to come, we want to share our extraordinary knowledge. Creating a place where we contemplate the ancient to generate the future.

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Educational tours for schools

Guided tours and workshops

Dedicated tours for primary and secondary schools for the 2025/2026 school year.

The treasures of the Capitolare

More than 1,200 manuscripts, including works unique in the world

The Capitolare holds a collection of over 1200 manuscripts, including works that are unique in the world. Among its shelves we can trace texts from the most diverse disciplines: theology, law, poetry, philosophy, astronomy, medicine, botany, history and numerous other sciences. This variety testifies to the happy encounter and mutual integration and contamination of religious and secular knowledge... Keep reading

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Sun 14 September 2025

Hours 16:30

Entrance fee

by reservation

Magicians, alchemists and fortune-tellers (Guided tour in Italian)

New appointment with magic in the Capitolare!

On Sunday 14 September at 4.30 p.m., we invite you on a journey through magical treaties, alchemy, divination, and other fascinating ancient texts that will be seen up close

By sea and by land

Itineraries, charts and maps to discover the world

New temporary exhibition for summer 2025: a journey through maps, nautical charts and atlases, discovering different ways of representing the world between ancient Greece and the Renaissance.... Keep reading

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Sat 20 September 2025

Hours 09:30

Entrance fee

by reservation

Encounter with the amanuensis - 2025 edition

Five workshop to discover the secrets of ancient and modern manuscripts

A cycle of five meetings to learn writing techniques, decorative styles and the secrets of the craftsmen's tools, with the opportunity to admire the skills of the ancient artists first hand on the manuscripts in the Capitolare.