Itineraries
In this section you can find itineraries that intend to show the wealth of Lucca's territory from an environmental, historical as well as a cultural point of view. Consequently natural parks, museums and constructions of particular artistic or architectural relevance have been grouped into tourist itineraries in order to stimulate an in-depth, integral knowledge of the different areas of the Province with particular emphasis on the Piana di Lucca, Versilia and Garfagnana.
Art nouveau villas
With the arrival of 1870 the Town Council becomes the owner of the walls of Lucca and urban plans are immediately put underway to systemize the bastions and the surroundings as well as the opening of ...
Art Nouveau Villas in Lucca - San Concordio
On viale S. Concordio near the level crossing you will find two buildings with a classic 19th century style. At number 64 there is palazzo Andreoni, designed in 1902 by an engineer called Giuseppe ...
Art Nouveau Villas in Lucca - Sant'Anna
Via CatalaniLeaving behind the door of Vittorio Emanuele II which was opened in 1911, you take via Catalani in the direction of Viareggio where at number 24, which is on the corner of viale lazzaro ...
Art Nouveau Villas in Lucca - The ring road along the walls
The suggested itinerary begins in the area of St Anna in Via Carlo Angeloni, a cross-road of Viale Lazzaro Papi, and where at number 61 you find a little villa dating back to the 1920's, particularly ...
Art Nouveau Villas in Lucca - Via Matteo Civitali
The route along via Civitali begins at number 27 with Villa Orzali, designed in 1894 by Modesto Orzali himself and is characterised by its faithfulness to traditions of the 1800's and to a repertoire ...
Man and his territory between the Apuan Alps, Versilia and the Plain
The environment has been shaped by man to a large extent and the exploitation of woods, pastures and fields is well documented by the many ethnographic museums dedicated to rural life.Where the ...
Man and his territory in Garfagnana
The environment has been shaped by man to a large extent and the exploitation of woods, pastures and fields is well documented by the many ethnographic museums dedicated to rural life.Where the ...
Modernism in the villas in Viareggio
The panorama offered by the avenues running along the sea at Viareggio shows a double way, with the architecture of the baths on one side (viale Margherita and viale Marconi) and the residential ...
Places connected with the Resistenza
In 1944 the Germans set up their last bastion, the so called Linea Gotica or Verde running from Pesaro to the Ligurian coast and crossing the Val di Serchio south of Borgo a Mozzano. Built using ...
Poets and musicians between nineteenth and twentieth century
Among the most famous artists that have lived in and around Lucca are Giacomo Puccini, Giovanni Pascoli, Giosuè Carducci and Gabriele D'Annunzio; today the places where they were born and ...
The marble routes
Marble has been used since ancient times and it is connected in particular with Monte Altissimo near Seravezza where Michelangelo Buonarroti chose the stone for the façade of San Lorenzo in ...
The Via Francigena from Lucca to Versilia
In the Middle Ages the Via Francigena was the main route for pilgrims heading for Rome, the Holy See; it also became an extremely important channel of cultural exchange and trade. Together with the ...
The Via Francigena in the Piana di Lucca
In the Middle Ages the Via Francigena was the main route for pilgrims heading for Rome, the Holy See; it also became an extremely important channel of cultural exchange and trade. Together with the ...
Villas of the Pizzorne
The Pizzorne are a chain of rises, not so much high as steep, which are found to the north-east of the city of Lucca and in the north define the Lucchese plains. Since Renaissance times, some of the ...