Greece is strategically located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north and Turkey to the northeast.
For the park in Upstate New York, see Verona Beach State Park. Romeo + Juliet is a 1996 American romantic drama film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It was directed by Baz Luhrmann. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the leading roles. The film is an abridged modernization of Shakespeare's play.
Confidence votes 4.9K. Like most of Shakespeare's plays Romeo and Juliet is set 'long, long ago, in a land far, far away'. Romeo and Juliet was first performed in the 1590's, but the story was borrowed from a book that was popular when Shakespeare was a little boy (Arthur Brooke's 'Romeus and Juliet' - first published in 1562).