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Hello PUBLISH0X community and welcome back to a new article! Today's article is dedicated to the last contest presented by Publish0x, dedicated to Upland. After the first contest, this is the second article dedicated to this platform that wants to bring a very interesting concept with this innovative project.
Before starting to tell you about my city, I wanted to make a brief summary of what Upland is for all those who are facing this project for the first time.
Upland is the earth's metaverse mapped to the real world and accessible via web. I immediately liked the concept of the game. It has its own in-game economy and can operate according to the law of supply and demand established by players like itself.
You don't need any in-depth crypto knowledge to succeed in Upland. Indeed, Upland is supported by the EOS blockchain. Blockchain can help us guarantee true ownership because every transaction is recorded in an irreversible ledger. In this way, you know that your property belongs to you-forever! Indeed, Upland's commercial business uses our game currency UPX.
Upland wants to solve a great problem of traditional games. Traditional games usually provide a simulated economy controlled by the game creator. In most cases, these simulated economies do not provide a market for trading or liquidating their assets.
This is me near my property on Upland:
After this easy explanation of the main concept of Upland I want to show you and get to know more about my city, Verona, located in northern Italy.
Someone from Stratford-upon-Avon wrote: “There is no world without Verona walls, but purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence-banished is banish’d from the world, and world’s exile is death…”.
He was William Shakespeare, and he wrote about the famous Story of Romeo and Juliet, two lovers from Verona.
And who better to explain the main places of interest than two protagonists of the city? That's why Romeo and Juliet will be the ones to take a tour of the "city of love".
Romeo and Juliet have just arrived in Verona. They arrived by train and now they are crossing the main street of Verona that leads them to the beating heart of this city, the Arena of Verona.
The Roman amphitheater, better known as the "Arena", is the symbol that makes Verona famous all over the world and the first thing tourists choose to see as soon as they set foot in the city. Probably built around the first century, the Arena, like all amphitheaters, hosted gladiator shows. Inside, with the concentric movement of the tiers of seats, it incites in the spectators a singular effect of majesty. It could accommodate up to 30,000 spectators leaving ample room for movement to those who performed. Great stage of important musical performances, the Arena continues to preserve its millennial function, although with less bloody shows!
After visiting the Arena, the two young Romeo and Juliet continue their city tour along one of the main streets of the city's historic center: Via Mazzini.
Via Mazzini is an important pedestrian street in Verona; located in the heart of the historic center, it connects the two most important city squares, Piazza Bra and Piazza Erbe.
The first part of the street, starting from piazza Erbe, perfectly follows what was the second decumanus of Roman Verona, while the second part, which takes a slightly different direction, was opened in 1391, when Gian Galeazzo Visconti ordered the demolition of some buildings that otherwise would not have allowed an easy access to the Bra and, therefore, to the fortified Citadel. In this street, the couple enjoys shopping among the various boutiques of prestigious brands, then enjoying a good ice cream as they arrive at the second square of Verona: Piazza delle Erbe.
Here, a colorful fruit and vegetable market with its array of umbrellas, surrounded by historic buildings and monuments is the main feature of Piazza delle Erbe: the oldest square in Verona, where medieval buildings have gradually taken the place of Roman ones. It is the place where you can best capture the most popular and lively side of the city, without sacrificing the cultural aspect of your vacation. During the market, on Saturdays and Sundays, it is the city's living room, where the Veronese meet for shopping or for the ritual of the evening aperitif.
A few steps from this square, the couple of lovers head towards a place familiar to them: The House of Romeo and Juliet. A beautiful brick-covered facade with a Gothic-style portal leads visitors inside: in the courtyard you can see a bronze statue of Juliet and the very famous balcony that saw the birth of love between the two young people. We visit the courtyard, the ground floor, the second floor with Juliet's balcony and the second floor with the room where the bed created for Zeffirelli's film Romeo and Juliet is displayed. The two boys visiting the house, wonder why it seems to them a very familiar place...
But Verona is not only history, monuments and beautiful squares. During the year there are many events that bring tourists from all over the world! Some of them are: the summer season of opera in the Arena, the horse fair that always brings guests from all over the world, the famous Vinitaly for all the entrepreneurs and fans in the wine business and much more...
Just about Vinitaly I wanted to say a few more words because it is the largest exhibition of wine and enology in the world which is held every year in spring. 4,600 exhibitors from 35 countries, 100,000 square meters of exhibition space, 125,000 visitors from 145 countries. Incredible numbers. Vinitaly takes place inside the Fiera di Verona, an entire district to the south of the city. Inside about twenty large pavilions the participating wineries set up their stands where tastings are held. The pavilions are divided by regions.
Besides wine, there are sections dedicated to enological technologies and equipment, olive oil, distillates, beer, gastronomy. Vinitaly's visitors are professionals, importers, distributors, international buyers, restaurateurs, enologists, critics, sommeliers, collectors but also simple fans, curious, and all those who have an interest in wine and in the world that revolves around it.
Vinitaly is a colossal event, which allows to know and taste wines of every kind and type, from the most renowned and known ones, to the niche productions of every region of Italy and of the world.
After having toured the city, the young couple, Romeo and Juliet, go to have dinner in one of the many historical restaurants of the city, where they can admire the beauty of the Roman excavations even while tasting the food.
Satisfied with dinner, the two young people headed back to Via Mazzini to take their last walk of the day before returning to the hotel to rest. They were impressed by this day in the "city of love", the place seemed very familiar to them, in fact they asked themselves several times if they had already lived within the walls of this city.
Of this city, we can say that it is a concentration of artistic, historical and cultural testimonies immersed in the charming atmosphere of alleys and squares complemented by the flavors of traditional cuisine and territorial.
I hope to have made you travel a little with me in my beautiful city. I thank Publish0x for a new opportunity with this contest and I wish Upland a bigger and bigger development in all the cities of the world (even Verona maybe).
On this sunny day, I greet all Publish0x readers and authors from the beautiful Arena of Verona!
If you have already visited Verona, let me know in a comment what you liked in particular!
See you soon!
