Festive fee at Juliet’s balcony as Verona attraction overrun by crowds

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In our travel news roundup this week: Italy gets angry at “fake” carbonara, the winner of the Wildlife Comedy Awards is revealed, plus the phony tourist attractions built to please visitors.

“Juliet’s House” in Verona, Italy, is one of the city’s most popular attractions, despite the fact Romeo and Juliet never existed except in the head of William Shakespeare.

The 14th-century building (so from the same time period, at least) was acquired by Verona’s city authorities in 1905 and ritzed up into a romantic shrine to the…