Romeo and Juliet: locations

Verona

• VeronaScene

  The principal setting of the tragedy, encompassing the feud between the Montagues and Capulets, Romeo and Juliet's courtship, Tybalt and Mercutio's deaths, and the lovers' final reunion in death.

• Verona's public places and streetsScene

  Veronese public streets and squares are the settings of the opening servants' brawl, the fatal encounters involving Mercutio and Tybalt, and several meetings among the play's characters.

• Capulet houseScene

  The Capulets' residence hosts their masked feast, where Romeo and Juliet meet; later scenes occur in the house as the family arranges Juliet's marriage to Paris and discovers her apparently dead.

• Capulet orchardScene

  Romeo enters the orchard beneath Juliet's window, overhears her famous balcony soliloquy, and exchanges vows of love with her.

• Juliet's chamberScene

  Juliet speaks with the Nurse and Romeo, learns of Tybalt's death and Romeo's banishment, rejects the proposed marriage to Paris, and later takes Friar Laurence's sleeping potion here.

• Friar Laurence's cellScene

  Romeo seeks the friar's help, Romeo and Juliet are married, the banished Romeo hides after killing Tybalt, and Juliet receives the potion plan here.

• Capulet monument and churchyardScene

  The final action occurs in the churchyard and Capulet family monument: Paris confronts Romeo, Romeo and Juliet die, and the rival families reconcile over their bodies.

• Sycamore grove west of VeronaMentioned

  Benvolio reports that the melancholy Romeo has been seen beneath a grove of sycamores growing west of Verona; it is referenced rather than used as a scene.

• Old FreetownMentioned

  The Prince orders Capulet to accompany him to this common place of judgment after the opening brawl. It is referenced but never shown and cannot be securely identified with a particular real site.

• Plague-sealed houseMentioned

  Friar John recounts being confined in a plague-stricken house by public-health officers, preventing him from delivering Friar Laurence's letter to Romeo; the house is only described afterward.