Lucca: TUSCANY's BEST
“…to see the stars again: light,” the theme of this year’s Lucca Comics & Games alludes to Dante Alighieri’s longing to escape the bowels of the Inferno in a line from his Divine Comedy, a work celebrating its 750th year in 2021. Making Dante a central figure in its promotional campaign may be the organizers’ […]
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Inizia il Lucca Book Festival: un colloquio geniale da non mancare
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Driving from Rome’s Fiumicino Airport to Lucca?You’ve had a grueling time on the plane. Enough is enough. Indulge in some R&R on the way to Lucca. DON’T take the Autostrada del Sole – A11.Drive north instead on the wind swept, tollway known as E80/SS1. The sea views will take your breathe away. This highway, originally […]
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Many years ago we discovered a happy, mysteriously isolated place. The hills, nearly mountains, there are rich with dense forest and wild boar, thickly built stone homes as well as beautiful vineyards and fields of grain. This is the Casentino, a region in Tuscany that’s conveniently just two hours directly east of Lucca and […]
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Hot? Tired? Need a quiet space to rest? Worry not. Lucca has many gardens, not just atop its walls… One of the most lovely hides just steps from the […]
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Ei, eccomi, sono CiCi. Dopo aver letto di come Roberto Roberto Guinigi abbia scansato il potenziale disastro del Progetto BRENDA, e di come la sua zuppa speciale di farro abbia risolto la crisi a Madeira, forse penserai: tutti i problemi in questo racconto si risolvono grazie alle geniali capacità di Doppio R Guinigi e del […]
Continue ReadingHi, CiCi here. After reading about how Roberto Roberto Guinigi salvaged the disaster that was Project BRENDA, and about how his special farro soup solved the crisis in Madeira, you may be thinking: all of the problems in this story get solved by Double R Guinigi’s brilliant planning and anticipation of obstacles, right? Think again […]
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– sopra alla quale era stampata la lettera “E” in onore della nave da guerra lucchese, Elsie. Nella lettera c’era scritto: “Signore Guinigi, “Ci abbiamo messo meno di tre settimane per viaggiare da Viareggio a Madeira, grazie ai venti favorevoli e all’assenza di bufere, corsari o altri elementi sfavorevoli. “Una volta ancorati nel porto di […]
Continue ReadingThe breathless messenger bowed in front of Roberto Roberto Guinigi, and handed him a parchment envelope with the seal of Captain Giancarlo Annapoli, in the shape of a three-masted warship on top of the letter E, for the Lucchese warship Elsie. The enclosed letter read as follows: “Signore Guinigi, “Our voyage from Viareggio to […]
Continue ReadingIl Capitano Giancarlo Annapoli, con il suo spensierato mezzo marinaio Usna, e Carlo Pellerini, il capo della spedizione a Madeira di Doppio R Guinigi, si rinfrescavano con un prosecco sulla terrazza dell’Hotel I Principi a Viareggio… dove dalle loro poltrone vicine alla piscina guardavano con interesse la fregata lucchese Elsie che veniva caricata con provvigioni. […]
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