Nick Squires
The Telegraph
25 Feb 2014
It is meant to bring good fortune for those who are unlucky in love, but a tradition of rubbing the right breast of a bronze statue of Juliet has left it looking decidedly the worse for wear.
The caressing touch of tens of thousands of thwarted romantics has done such damage that this week the statue was removed from the courtyard of what is known as Juliet’s House in Verona, the city where Shakespeare set his tale of “star-cross’d lovers”.
A local foundry has been commissioned to make an exact replica of the bronze at a cost of 20,000 euros (£16,500).
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