Routes

Man and his territory between the Apuan Alps, Versilia and the Plain

Man and his territory in Garfagnana

Modernism in the villas in Viareggio

The Via Francigena from Lucca to Versilia

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

Viale San Concordio, Lucca

On viale S. Concordio near the level crossing you will find two buildings with a classic 19th century style. At number 64th there is Palazzo Andreoni, designed in 1902 by an engineer called Giuseppe...

Art Nouveau Villas in Lucca - Sant'Anna

Via Catalani Leaving behind the door of Vittorio Emanuele II which was opened in 1911, you take via Catalani in the direction of Viareggio where at number 24th, which is on the corner of viale...

Art Nouveau Villas in Lucca - The ring road along the walls

Lucca, Viali di circonvallazione

Viale Lazzaro Papi e Viale Carducci 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 61st you find a little villa...

Art Nouveau Villas in Lucca - Via Matteo Civitali

Via Matteo Civitali, Lucca

The route along via Civitali begins at number 27th 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...

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...

Isola Santa Village

In Careggine, in the province of Lucca, there is Isola Santa, a small village consisting of a few stone houses with a slate roof and a very characteristic church that overlooks a recently built...

La Via Matildica del Volto Santo

A 285 kilometer long itinerary that crosses in 11 stages (with 3 variants) the territory of 3 Italian regions (Lombardy, Emilia, Tuscany) rich in culture, traditions and landscapes. From Mantua to...

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 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...