A significant number of asexuals also identify as aromantic, which means that they do not experience romantic attraction. Separating romantic and sexual attraction is not strictly limited to asexual people, however. For instance, it is possible for someone to be an aromantic heterosexual, or any other combination.
Shakespeare got the story of Romeo and Juliet from a poem by Arthur Brooke called Romeus and Juliet. In Brooke's poem, the story takes place in Verona, Italy.
The story of Romeo and Juliet itself grew from a Greek play and then several other works with similar themes, and the fact that it takes place when it does allows for the realistic existence of two great families that exist in some ways above the law of the city.