Art

Domus Romana

Via Cesare Battisti 15 Lucca

MuSA - Virtual Museum of Sculpture and Architecture

Via Sant'Agostino 61 Pietrasanta

Museo Puccini a Celle

via Meletori 27

Orecchiella Park Visitor Center

Parco dell'Orecchiella

Puccini Museum - Birthplace

Corte S. Lorenzo, 9 Lucca

Roman amphitheatre of Lucca

Piazza dell'Anfiteatro, 55100 Lucca LU

Archaeological collection

Via Umberto I, Borgo a Mozzano

The archaeological collection is housed at present in the basement of the Municipality building; it is composed of finds from the Borgo a Mozzano area and its surroundings. Enriched by cartographic...

Museum of Work and Popular Traditions of Historical Versilia

Viale L. Amadei, 230

The Historical Museum of Peasantry and Versilian Folk Traditions is housed in Seravezza's Palazzo Mediceo, a mansion built on behalf of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici of Florence and projected by...

Archaeological area of Roman Massaciuccoli

Via Pietra a Padule, 55054 Massaciuccoli, Massarosa LU

The area surrounding the lake of Massaciuccoli, which in antiquity must have appeared as a vast coastal lagoon, has preserved traces of human presence since prehistoric times. In a period between the...

Archaeological site of Acquarella

Località Capezzano Pianore 55041 Camaiore - Lucca

In the area at the foot of the hills around the entrance of the Camaiore valley archaeological excavations began in 1994 on an area of 700 square metres, bringing to light a settlement that was...

Archaeological site of the church SS. Giovanni and Reparata

Piazza S. Giovanni, 55100 Lucca LU

The church of SS. Giovanni and Reparata, together with its baptistery annex, is situated in the south-eastern part of the town and was built in the Vth century a.D. The complex was the first in the...

Buca del Tasso

Camaiore, località Metato

Buca del Tasso is situated in Metato hamlet, in the district of Camaiore, at 415 meters above sea level. It is a small cave that opens on the left of a stream called Carpigna, a tributary of Rio...

Buca di Castelvenere

55020 Fabbriche di Vergemoli LU

The cavern of Castelvenere, locally known also as "Capelvenere", "Casteltendine" or "Cascaltendine", opens, at 650 m. a.s.l., on the south-eastern side of Mount Penna di...

Casa Museo Giovanni Pascoli

Via di Mezzo, 11, 55051 Barga LU

The poet Giovanni Pascoli, in search of a quiet, peaceful place where to live and write his poems, chose Castelvecchio di Barga. He moved there in October 1895 with his sister Maria and his dog...

Chiarone

Chiarone Capannori

The Chiarone area, in the plain of Lucca, is situated along the ancient course of the Serchio, where the river, in a wide bight, receives its right tributary Visona. The archaeological site, already...

Civic Archaeological Museum of Camaiore

palazzo Tori - piazza Francigena Camaiore

The Civic Archaeological Museum of Camaiore, located in Piazza Francigena, was inaugurated on May 14th, 2016 after having been subjected during these years of a long work of restructuring, functional...

Civica Raccolta di Ceramiche Rinascimentali

P.zza S. Giacomo camporgiano

The museum is housed in the main tower of the Rocca di Camporgiano. The origin of this monumental rocca is Medieval; in 1446 it passed from the Malaspina family to the Dukes of Este who gave it its...

Civici Musei di Villa Paolina: Museo Archeologico Alberto Carlo Blanc, Museo degli Stumenti Musicali Giovanni Ciuffreda.

Villa Paolina, Via Machiavelli, 2 viareggio

The municipal museums of Villa Paolina are housed in one of the most remarkable buildings in town: the summer residence of Paolina Borghese Bonaparte. Built around 1822 on a project of Giovanni...

Colle Tondo treasure trove

Pietrasanta, località Castiglione

Near Castiglione, also known as Colle Tondo, one of the first hills on the edge of the plain between Ripa and Strettoia, five silver denari of the Republic Age have been found by chance; they...

Community and Business Museum

Via 4 Novembre, 70, 55040 Levigliani LU

Lavorare liberi is a genuine community museum conserving the history of one place: Levigliani in Stazzema. This cultural institution bases it work on the special relationship between citizens and...

Etruscan cottage of Casa Baldi

Seravezza, località Pozzi

The alluvial terrace of the river Versilia was inhabited between the VIIth and Vth century B.C. by an Etruscan community. The economic vitality of this area was due mostly to the exploitation of...

Etruscan necropolis of Baraglino

Seravezza, località Querceta

The alluvial terrace of the Versilia river was inhabited between the VIIth and Vth century B.C. by an Etruscan community. The economic vitality of this area was due mostly to the exploitation of...

Etruscan settlement of Bora dei Frati

Pietrasanta

Between the IVth and the IIIrd century B.C. signs of the new balance created in the Apuan-Versilian region by the arrival of the Ligurians and by the more and more insistent interest of Rome in the...

Etruscan settlement of Piari

Vagli di Sotto

The archaeological site of Piari, found in 1984 during a periodic drainage of the Vagli artificial basin, underwent an emergency excavation. In the summer of 1985; the area, from which earth had...

Etruscan settlement of S. Rocchino

Massarosa

The area surrounding the lake of Massaciuccoli, that in ancient times must have been a vast coastal lagoon, has yielded proofs of human presence since prehistoric times. In a period between the...

Etruscan settlement of Tempagnano

tempagnano

The Etruscan settlement of Tempagnano, discovered by chance during construction works, has been explored by archaeologists between 1988 and 1989. Situated in the plain of Lucca, about 2 km east of...

Etruscan tomb of Via del Poggione

Seravezza, località Ripa

The alluvial terrace of the Versilia river was inhabited between the VIIth and Vth century B.C. by an Etruscan community. The economic vitality of this area was due mostly to the exploitation of...

Eugenio Barsanti Museum

Pietrasanta, c/o Palazzo via Marzocco

To discover an extraordinary invention, you have to experiment for a long time. This was the scientific work of spiritual father Eugenio Barsanti, (1821-1864), citizen of Pietrasanta, inventor...

Fortress of Verrucole

Via del Forte, 25, 55038 Verrucole LU

The fortress of Verrucole, beautiful and imposing, is somewhat stretched along the north-east to south-west axis, on a hill above the village of San Romano Garfagnana in front of the Orecchiella...

Fossa Nera

Fossa Nera Porcari

Situated in ancient times on the left bank of the lower Auser, the archaeological area of Fossa Nera, in the plain of Lucca, preserves substantial remains of a Roman rural dwelling built in the IInd...

Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea (GAMC)

Palazzo delle Muse, piazza Mazzini

The Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art Lorenzo Viani (GAMC), set up in the heart of the city, inside the historic Palazzo delle Muse, has a collection of over 3000 works by around 750...

Grotta all'Onda

Camaiore, località Casoli

Grotta all'Onda is situated at a height of 710 metres above sea level on the slopes of Mount Matanna in the hamlet of Casoli. It is a large cave, 40X60 metres wide, and originally had numerous...

Historical Museum of the Resistance

Via Coletti 22 stazzema

On the 19th September 1991 the Tuscan Regional Centre for the Resistance Movement chose S. Anna di Stazzema as seat of the Historical Museum of the "Resistenza". A visit gives an essential,...

La realtà svelata. Il Surrealismo e la Metafisica del sogno. Magritte, Dalí, Miró, Masson, Man Ray, Bellmer, Matta e De Chirico

17th September 2020 - 21st January 2021

Via della Fratta, 36, 55100 Lucca

A journey through 56 works on paper - including engravings, etchings, drypoints and color lithographs - within one of the greatest avant-garde artistic movements of the twentieth century, Surrealism,...

Ligurian necropolis of Levigliani

Stazzema, località Levigliani

The deep fluvial valley of the Vezza is the most important Ligurian district this side of the Apuan Alps, well protected as it is behind the massive tower of Mount Corchia. Only the necropoleis of...

Ligurian settlement of Colle delle Carbonaie

Castiglione Garfagnana

The Ligurian presence in the area around Colle delle Carbonaie was already known from the finding, at the end of the 19th century, of a burial area at Pian di Paolo (Villa Collemandina). The...

Ligurian settlement of Monte Altissimo

monte Altissimo seravezza

The valley of the Serra, from Monte Altissimo up to its confluence with the Vezza, where we find the village of Seravezza, has yielded, in its innermost section, the remains of settlements that can...

Ligurian settlement of Monte Pisone

S. Romano di Garfagnana

The Ligurian settlement of Monte Pisone (879 m. a.s.l.), a clue of which was already found at the beginning of the last century in a woman's tomb, today lost, near S. Romano in Garfagnana, has...

Lu.C.C.A. Lucca Center of Contemporary Art

Via della Fratta, 36, 55100 Lucca

The Lu.C.C.A. - Lucca Center of Contemporary Art is a museum of modern and contemporary visual art. It is linked to the theme of interdisciplinarity, the multi-sensory approach, the active...

Mostra Archeologica Permanente

Via Cardinale Pacini 20

The preparation of the archaeological exhibition of Capannori in September 1987 was the first step towards the creation of an archaeological documentation centre on this area closely linked to the...

Mostra di Attrezzi di Vita Contadina

Via di Sottomonte

The cultural society "La Ruota" (so called after the water wheel used for irrigating in the Plain of Lucca) is active in the southern part of Capannori Municipality, an area that includes...

Museo Archeologico del Territorio della Garfagnana

Piazzetta Ariosto castelnuovo garfagnana

Seat of the municipality until the Second World War, the original structure of the rocca of Castelnuovo Garfagnana was heavily damaged during the 1944 bombings. At present the rocca houses...

Museo Archeologico Versiliese

Piazza Duomo, Pietrasanta

Since its foundation in 1968 the Museum has been housed at Palazzo Moroni in the Piazza del Duomo of Pietrasanta. On the outside the building has a double flight of stairs and is among the most...

Museo Casa Natale Giosuè Carducci

via Valdicastello, loc. Valdicastello Carducci, Pietrasanta

Giosuè Carducci, the famous Italian poet who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1906, was born in Valdicastello on the 27th July 1835. The family's house was composed of four rooms...

Museo Casa-Atelier di Ugo Guidi

Via M. Civitali, 33

In Vittoria Apuana, in the municipality of Forte dei Marmi, there is Ugo Guidi Casa-Atelier Museum that is inaugurated in 2005. The Museum allows you to appreciate the importance and liveliness of...

Museo Civico del Territorio Antonio Mordini

Piazza dell´Arringo del Duomo barga

The Museum is located in the evocative rooms of Palazzo Pretorio, once residence of Barga Commissari and Podestà; visiting them we can become familiar with the Barga region and its natural,...

Museo d'Arte Sacra

Via IV Novembre, 71 camaiore

In 1936, in a XVIIth century building, seat of the Confraternita di San Michele e San Vincenzo, the Museum of Sacred Art was set up. In origin it was simply a place where paintings, vestments, altar...

Museo dei Bozzetti

Via S. Agostino 1 pietrasanta

In the 70's thorough restoration works were carried out on the former convent of S. Agostino, built in the XVIth century next to an existing XIIIth century church; the entire complex was restored...

Museo del Carnevale

Via Santa Maria Goretti viareggio

The Carnival Museum is located inside the new complex of the "Carnival Citadel", designed by arch. Francesco Tomassi. The museum offers visitors the opportunity to learn more about the...

Museo del Castagno

Via Fratta - Colognora - Val di Roggio

The Chestnut Museum was set up by volunteers to provide evidence for and explain the historical importance of the chestnut tree in the Valle di Roggio area. There is evidence of chestnut cultivation...

Museo del Risorgimento

Palazzo Ducale, Cortile degli Svizzeri, 6 lucca

The Risorgimento Museum occupies several rooms of the Palazzo Ducale and illustrates the period of Italian history between 1821 and WWI, known as Risorgimento, through a series of interesting...

Museo della Cattedrale

via dell´Arcivescovado lucca

Founded by the Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca and opened at the end of 1922, the Museum is housed in a complex consisting of a XIIIth century tower house, a XVIth century church and a XIVth century main...

Museo della Figurina di Gesso e dell'Emigrazione

Via del Mangano, 17 coreglia antelminelli

The Museum of Plaster Statuettes and Emigration, unique in its kind, explains the art of modelling plaster and the associated phenomenon of the statuette makers emigration from their homes in the mid...

Museo della Marineria

via Peschiera 9 (lungo canale est)

The museum was projected in 1920 but it has been carried out just in 2006 in the historic Fish Market building along the bank of Burlamacca canal. The town of Viareggio has confided to this museum...

Museo della Satira e della Caricatura

Piazza Garibaldi forte dei marmi

The Forte dei Marmi Museum of satire and caricatures is housed in the Forte di Leopoldo I; it continues the idea of the Satira Politica Prize and has become a centre of conservation, collection and...

Museo dell’Identità dell’Alta Garfagnana “Olimpio Cammelli”

Minucciano LU

The museum, which opened May 16th, 2009, is located next to the "Old Church", on top of "Colle di Casa" where once stood the "Castle" and the "Old Country...

Museo d’Arte Sacra – Benabbio

Piazza Santa Maria 2, 55022 Benabbio LU Italia

Set up in the former Oratory of the Holy Trinity, the Museum was inaugurated in 2010 to preserve, enhance and promote knowledge of the historical and artistic heritage from the Church of Santa Maria...

Museo Etnografico Don Luigi Pellegrini

via del Voltone, 14 san pellegrino garfagnana

The Don Luigi Pellegrini Ethnographic Museum is housed in the medieval Hospital of San Pellegrino (XIth - XIIth century) where travellers and pilgrims crossing the Apennine along this route could...

Museo Italiano dell’Immaginario Folklorico

Via Ducale 4, San Michele Piazza al Serchio – Lucca

The Museo Italiano dell'Immaginario Folklorico collects and keeps unpublished tales of the oral tradition of our territory and the other Italian regions. People can visit...

Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi

Via Galli Tassi 43, 55100 Lucca

The National Museum of Palazzo Mansi is housed in one of the most luxurious mansions of the town, built between the end of XVIth and the beginning of the XVIIth century. The Mansi family bought the...