Verona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport

Verona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN), named for the Roman poet born in Verona, is the principal aviation gateway to Lake Garda — Italy's largest lake — and the Veneto region's second-busiest commercial airport after Venice Marco Polo. Serving the UNESCO-listed city of Verona, the Prosecco hills, Trento and the Dolomites, VRN handles around 3.5 million passengers a year and ranks among the top 15 Italian airports. It is operated by Aeroporto Valerio Catullo di Verona Villafranca S.p.A., in which SAVE (the Venice Airport group) holds a majority stake. The airport lies in the Villafranca di Verona plain about 10 km (6 mi) southwest of Verona's historic center, at an elevation of 239 ft (73 m), sharing the airfield with the Italian Air Force's 3° Stormo. A single 10,064 ft (3,068 m) asphalt runway (04/22) handles commercial operations, and a terminal expansion launched in 2023 is progressively enlarging landside processing, with a new pier slated to lift design capacity beyond 6 million passengers per year. Twenty-nine airlines link VRN to 81 nonstop destinations, with Ryanair, Volotea, Neos, easyJet, Wizz Air and Lufthansa providing the densest networks, and charter programs from Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, Poland and the Czech Republic driving outsized seasonal peaks during the summer lake season and the winter Dolomites ski season. Long-haul service from New York was launched by Neos in 2025, reinforcing VRN's growing importance as a direct intercontinental entry point into northeastern Italy (2025).