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.

Star-crossed or catfished?

“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 fictional lovers, with the addition of a balcony and a statue of Juliet.

After a selfie on the balcony upon which no Capulet ever lamented, tourists customarily rub Juliet’s breast for good luck — a courtship ritual we hope never existed in the

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