Cultural itineraries – Lucca
Lucca: Two thousand years of history can be visited every day walking through the streets and squares of the city.
Monuments and Museums in Lucca
Two thousand years of Lucca’s history can be visited every day walking through the streets and squares of the city. As many treasures are preserved in the numerous collections of Lucca and the territory.
They are the National Museums, which collect the great works and artisan and artistic artefacts of our past, and the small-large local collections, where unexpected treasures are sometimes found. For adults and children, educational and in-depth activities are often available.
Lucca Discover
The most visited places, our suggestions on what to do and where to go
Lucca
There are so many things to see in Lucca, a city of immense historical and monumental riches, for which the proposal to include its historic center on the UNESCO World Heritage List was also put forward. Starting with the almost intact walls that surround it.
The city can be accessed by passing the walls through six gates built between the 1500s and the early 1900s. Other gates, dating back to earlier walled traces, can still be seen inside the present walls, this is the Antica Porta San Donato (1590), inside the homonymous square, home to the Opera delle Mura, Porta San Gervasio (1198) and Porta dei Borghi.
The Versilia
Versilia, a cultured and fun land, is known to many for its social life. But this stretch of land in the province of Lucca, which stretches between the slopes of the Apuan Alps and the San Rossore Park, is famous for the beaches it hosts. Between Forte dei Marmi and Viareggio, typical of the Versilia coast, are in fact the long beaches of fine sand and the peculiar coastal dunes, especially between Viareggio and Torre del Lago. Notes are also the holiday resorts that dot it: the exclusive Forte dei Marmi , the charming Viareggio, Marina di Pietrasanta and the Lido di Camaiore.
Florence
The province of Florence, cradle of the Renaissance and the Italian language, extends in an area of timeless charm, such as the Mugello, the Florentine Mountain, the Valdarno, a part of the Chianti and the Empoli Valdelsa, which have different environmental and landscape features .
In the center, in a basin crossed by the Arno, shines the magnificent city of Florence, one of the most beautiful in Europe, full of amazing views and artistic masterpieces created by the greatest masters of Humanism and the Renaissance, characters that have impressed their indelible sign in the field of architecture and art of all time: from Giotto to Brunelleschi, from Michelangelo to Vasari, from Michelozzo to Leon Battista Alberti, just to name a few.
The Via Francigena
The ancient road that in the Middle Ages linked Canterbury to Rome and to the ports of Puglia was rediscovered by modern wayfarers, who set off along a splendid and surprising route. Since 2001, the European Association of Vie Francigene coordinates the development and enhancement of an itinerary that crosses Italy and Europe and retraces the history of our continent.
