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Church of Saints Giuseppe and Maria Maddalena

Parrocchia dei SS. Giuseppe e Maria Maddalena Pietrasanta, località Valdicastello Via Valdicastello Carducci 55045 Pietrasanta LU Italia

The new Parish Church of Valdicastello is above all noted for its interior furnishings which include works originally held at the Parish Church of Saints Giovanni and Felicita, such as a valuable...

Church of San Cristoforo

Via Fillungo, ., 55100 Lucca LU

The church of San Cristoforo is in the central part of the town, along via Fillungo. It is a basilica with three aisles and a roof supported by trusses. The façade, with rows of perfectly...

Church of San Paolino and San Donato

via San Paolino Lucca

San Paolino and San Donato's church is an example of a Renaissance church. It is in the homonymous street and it is known with San Paolino's name. In 1261, after the discovery of the...

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...

Commemorative monument to the students of R. Liceo Ginnasio in Lucca who died in war

Via degli Asili, 35 Lucca

This is a vertical stone stele with a bas-relief depicting the winged Victory with a palm bough. There is an epigraph at the sides, with the names of the dead appearing above in a series of small...

Commemorative plaque for the Tobacco Factory workers who died in war

via Vittorio Emanuele II Lucca

The plaque, to the left of the entrance on the facade of the ex Tobacco Factory in Lucca, has a large stone frame around a bronze bas-relief of a woman encircled by a turreted crown (Italy)...

Commemorative plaque to war victims from the district of Pelleria

via S. Tommaso, lucca

This is a rectangular marble plaque with a central bronze bas-relief, a dedicatory epigraph and a bronze votive lamp at its base. The work is situated on the side facade of the Church of S. Tommaso...

Complesso monumentale di Sillano

Piazzale delle Grazie, Sillano

Big monumental altar dedicated to the Fallen of all the wars, it is a memorial to the sacrifice of more then hundred of citizens of Sillano, military and civilian men,who died during the war...

Ducal Palace

Cortile Carrara, 1, 55100 Lucca

Ducal Palaca has been the political and administrative center of the city of Lucca for eight centuries. In 1322 the Lucca leader Castruccio Castracani degli Antelminelli, at the height of his power,...

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...

Etruscan tomb of Villa Mansi

Camaiore

The Camaiore valley represented an important route climbing up from the coastal plain and continuing through the Freddana valley; it connected the seashore with the Serchio valley and the plain of...

Fortified town of Castiglione

Castiglione di Garfagnana

Coming towards Castiglione already from afar it is possible to see the imposing walls that stretch for 750 meters, with a planimetric shape in the shape of an irregular quadrilateral. You enter the...

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...

Gravestone to the Fallen of Molazzana

Parco della Rimembranza Molazzana

The tombstone dedicated to the Fallen of the first world war is located on a stone wall which encloses the Memorial Park. The work has been realized with local marble and, in the upper part, leans...

Gravestone to the fallen of the fraction of Pontetetto

Pontetetto (Lucca

The plaque is situated on the facade of the local church. It features an internal epigraph surmounted by a small helmet in bas-relief. The plaque is situated above the secondary portal of the church....

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,...

Isola Santa

Isola Santa careggine

This outside settlement is located on a small embankment above the bottom of the valley of the Turrite Secca, a stream deeply set in the Apuan Alps, at a height of 510 metres, in the municipality of...

Lapide ai Caduti della seconda guerra mondiale di Vergemoli

Loggiato dell’oratorio di Sant’Antonio di Vergemoli

The tombstone dedicated to the Fallen of the second world war is located on the left of the entry door of the oratory. On one side it is engraved a bas-relief which represents an Alpino who is going...

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...

Ligurian tomb in Castelvecchio Pascoli

Barga, località Loppia

The tomb of Castelvecchio Pascoli, discovered in 1976, represents a further contribution to the picture of Ligurian presence in the Serchio valley and, in particular, in the area of Barga. The...

Lucca War Memorial

Piazzale del Risorgimento, Lucca

The monument, situated in piazza del Risorgimento near Lucca train station and S. Pietro gate in the town walls, has a large, tall stone base with steps. Above this there is a vertical element where,...

Monument commemorating the war dead from the hamlet of Saltocchio

Saltocchio (Lucca),

The monument is situated in the open space next to the church of Saltocchio, in front of the entrance to the cemetery. It consists of a base and vertical element with dedicatory epigraph topped by a...

Monument to the Alpine of Careggine

Via Provinciale, Careggine

The marble monument is mainly dedicated to those Alpini who died in the second world war. On the back of it you can read the writing, posthumous, in honour of the Fallen of 1915-18 and 1936. The work...

Monument to the fallen from S. Macario in Piano village

Via Gavine, 366 S. Macario in Piano

The piece is located in front of the village church. The monument consists of a base of concentric steps, with a vertical body with dedicatory epigraph surmounted by a marble statue depicting a torn...

Monument to the fallen in the hamlet of S. Pietro a Vico

San Pietro a Vico

The work is located in the garden in front of the village cemetery. It is a monument resting on the ground through a stepped base from which stands a vertical stone block with a dedicatory epigraph....

Monument to the Fallen of Cogna

Via San Leonardo, 1Piazza al Serchio

The memorial stone dedicated to the Fallen of both wars and realized with red stone and cement, stands on a terrace base and it has a pyramidal shape. On the top of the monument there is an iron...

Monument to the Fallen of Corfino

Piazza del Santo, villa collemandina

Bronze sculptural monument dedicated to the Fallen of all wars, located inside a monumental enclosure. It represents a soldier who climbs a rock completely covered of ivy while he raises the flag....

Monument to the Fallen of Gallicano

Via IV novembre, Gallicano

The monument, erected in honour of the Fallen of the first world war, stays inside a little monumental enclosure. It is a column on which there is a statue representing the Country. The statue of...

Monument to the Fallen of Gorfigliano

Piazza Badarello, Gorfigliano - 55034

The monument dedicated to the Fallen of both wars, is composed of a fountain whose sides there are two commemorative tombstones with the names of the Fallen of the first and second war. The...

Monument to the Fallen of Magnano

Via provinciale di Magnano

The monument is composed of two parts: a bas-relief in honour of the Fallen of the first world war and a lower tombstone dedicated to the heroes of the second war. At first, the bas-relief as on the...

Monument to the Fallen of Minucciano

Piazza Vittorio Veneto, Minucciano - 55034

The monument, originally born to honour the Fallen of the big war, has been previously completed with the names of the Fallen in the second war. On the memorial stone there is an eagle, symbol of...

Monument to the Fallen of Molazzana

Via Roma, 2 (Molazzana)

Monument dedicated to the Fallen of all the wars which represents, by a spiral movement of stylized forms, a tangle of soldiers. The work, located in front of a calcareous stone niche, over a base...

Monument to the Fallen of Pieve Fosciana

Via San Giovanni, 21 Pieve Fosciana

The monument in honour of the Fallen of the first world war is composed of a marble obelisk, about six meters high and located on a base formed by solids of different measures. In front of the...

Monument to the Fallen of San Donnino

Via Umberto I, San Donnino

Memorial stone in honour of the Fallen of both wars, realized in local red stone and cement. Over it, a marble cross and, on the front of the monument, inside a niche, there is the tombstone. In the...

Monument to the Fallen of Sillicagnana

Piazza Centrale di Sillicagnana

The sculptural monument, in pietra serena, is dedicated to the memorial of 30 young men who died on different fronts during the two world wars. It is composed of different blocks and tombstones: on...

Monument to the fallen of the fraction of S. Maria del Giudice

Piazza Vittoria - S. Maria del Giudice

The monument, situated in the central square of Santa Maria del Giudice, has a base in the form of concentric steps, with a vertical element with dedicatory epigraph, surmounted by a marbled...

Monument to the fallen soldiers of Sesto di Moriano

Sesto di Moriano (Lucca

The monument is situated in a small garden near the local church. With a large base and a sculpted stone with dedicatory epigraphs, topped by a sculpture of a dying soldier lying on rocks on the...

Monumental complex of the Argegna

Monte Argegna

The complex, erected in honour of Alpini, is composed of a bronze votive bell, six cement memorial stones, a marble block as altar. Every monument stays on a large cement base. The pivot of the...

Monumental complex of the Capuchins

Via della Rimembranza - Castelnuovo di Garfagnana

The monumental complex dedicated to the Fallen of the first world war is made of sculptural monument, memorial park and avenue. The wooded avenue that from way 324, at the railway fork, reaches the...

Monumento ai Caduti di Migliano

Parco dei Caduti, Migliano Fosciandora

The monument of Migliano is dedicated to the Fallen of the first world war. It is a marble obelisk, pyramidal and with square base, located on the two stone grades surmounted by three marble bases...

Necropolis of Baccatoio

Pietrasanta, località Baccatoio

The Valdicastello valley, at the centre of the Versilia, is distinguished by a great morphological variety: the stream Baccatoio flows through it and the Mount Lieto (1016 m. a.s.l.) massif towers...

Necropolis of Marlia Ponticello

Necropoli di Marlia-Ponticello

The Marlia territory is situated on the northern edge of the plain of Lucca, close to the slopes of the Pizzorne. In the Roman Age this area was part of the centuriated territory of the town of Lucca...

Necropolis of S. Concordio - Via Squaglia

Museo Nazionale Di Palazzo Mansi Via Galli Tassi, 43 55100 Lucca

Found by chance in 1982 on the present day south-eastern outskirts of Lucca, the necropolis of Via Squaglia is linked to a small Etruscan settlement of the end of the VIIth century b.C. along the...

Necropolis of Vado

Camaiore, località Vado

The Camaiore valley represented an important route climbing from the coastal plain and continuing through the Freddana valley; it connected the seashore with the Serchio valley and the plain of...

Palazzo Bertolli, now seat of the Professional Institute for Tourism

Viale Camillo Benso Cavour, 287, 55100 Lucca LU

The rectangular based building consists of three floors above ground level in addition to the attic and is considerable in dimension. It has a pavilion roof surfaced with Marseillais tiling. The...

Palazzo Giorgi

viale Giusti 587/593, Lucca

The trapezoide based palazzo consists of four floors in addition to the cellar and has a pavilion roof surfaced with Marseillais roofing tiles. The main façade, facing north, is characterised...

Palazzo Maso and garage ex motorist cooperative

viale Catalani, Lucca

The rectangular based building consists of three floors and a cellar and is covered by a hip roof which has a layer of Marseillais tiles. The main facade on the ground floor which faces onto...

Parish Church of Saints Giovanni Battista and Stefano

Chiesa San Giovanni Battista e San Stefano Camaiore, località La Pieve Piazza Don Renzo Gori 55041 Camaiore LU Italia

This extremely old and powerful Parish Church, well preserved in its 12th century appearance, was forced to give up power to the previously dependent Church of S. Maria after this was re-founded in...

Parish Church of San Giorgio in Brancoli

Pieve di Brancoli,Lucca

This building, along with the Church of S. Alessandro of Lucca and the Parish Church of Valdottavo, is one of the finest and most important examples of the new architectural and figurative language...

Park of the Fallen of Castiglione Garfagnana

Parco della Rimembranza - Via Roma 55033 Garfagnana

In the park dedicated to the Fallen of Castiglione have been preserved an obelisk as memorial of the first world war, a tombstone dedicated to the Fallen of all the wars and ten plates dedicated to...