Lucca Summer Festival music event
Lucca Summer Festival is a musical event that has been held in Lucca during the month of July since 1998. The concerts are held in the city of Lucca, within the historic walls, in Piazza Napoleone, Piazza San Martino and Piazza dell’Anfiteatro. Bands and soloists of national and international value have trod the stages of […]
Lucca Comics & games in Lucca
Lucca Comics & Games is a fair dedicated to comics, animation, games (role-playing, tabletop, card), video games and fantasy and science fiction imagery, which takes place in Lucca in Tuscany, on horseback days between October and November. It is considered the most important Italian exhibition of the sector, first in Europe and second in the […]
Piazza Anfiteatro in Lucca
The Roman amphitheater, now about three meters underground, was built outside the walls in the 1st or 2nd century AD. Elliptical in shape, it had on the outside two superimposed orders of fifty-five arches on pillars that supported the cavea, formed in its vault by twenty steps and capable of ten thousand spectators. The building, […]
Torre delle ore in Lucca
The clock tower of Lucca (or tower of the clock, in dialect Tor dell’òre) is located in via Fillungo at the corner with via dell’Arancio and, with its approximately 50 meters in height, it is the tallest of the 130 towers present in the city since Middle Ages to today. History and architecture The construction […]
The walls of Lucca
The walls of Lucca are the second major example in Europe of walls built according to the principles of modern fortification that have been completely preserved in a large city. Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, holds the record with a wall circle of 4.5 km with 11 ramparts and three gates. The current city walls […]
Torre Guinigi in Lucca
The tower, built in stone and bricks, is one of the most representative and famous monuments of Lucca; its main feature is the presence of some holm oaks on its top. In the early fourteenth century, Lucca was proud of the more than 250 towers and numerous bell towers that enriched the city in medieval […]