Lucca News June 27, 2026 – Mayor Mario Pardini reflects on his first term
“We’ve tried to make Lucca increasingly international, managing quantity while focusing on quality. It’s working.” –Mario Pardini, Mayor
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NEWS Uffizi Library – Florence, Italy:
23 June 2026 Today, Lucca Comics & Games 2026 (LC&G26) announced the lineup of artists and gaming platforms attending this year’s event in Lucca to celebrate its “Legacy of Community since 1966”. The event runs from October 28th to November 1st in the suggestive walled city of Lucca, where it was founded. The poster promoting […]
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NEWS LUCCA 22 giugno 2026
Anche quando fa caldo, quest’è un bellissimo posto dove stare… LUCCA HOSTEL & ROOMS SAN FREDIANO Mario Pardini, Sindaco di Lucca, e Remo Santini, Assessore al Turismo, hanno allegramente notato oggi che con l’apertura di Lucca Hostel & Rooms San Frediano nel 2025, la diversità fra le strutture alberghiere nel centro storico è aumentata. Adesso […]
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NEWS LUCCA 22 JUNE 2026
Fred the mascot welcomes guests to Lucca Hostel and Rooms San Frediano
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News Lucca 22 June 2026:
It’s SO HOT in LUCCA right now! Feels like we are living in the tropics but without the rain! How to survive?
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NEWS 18 OCTOBER 2025 LUCCA COMICS & GAMES
A fantastical field trip NEWS Just announced 14 October 2025: Every big name in Comics from YouTube to Hollywood to musical theater to books – everyone is coming to Lucca Comics and Games 2025 French Kiss (LC&G). No one will be left out – especially not the kids – organizers announced today, 14 October 2025. […]
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COMICS news TODAY
Kids love Lucca Comics & Games and so do their parents. Find out how to get the most out of your experience here…
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COMING SOON: Lucca Comics & Games 2025
Lucca Comics & Games 2025: Discounts for Lucca residents are coming Today, September 18, 2025 comes the news – less than two months before the Lucca Comics & Games festival, with the support of the city of Lucca, two companies: Lucca Crea and Lucca Plus have a pact to benefit Lucchesi at the same time […]
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NEWS 22 June 2026 Lucca Comics & Games RITORNA
Leggete cos’è successo nel 2025 e domani sentiremo come sarà ancora più below nel 2026…
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CiCi “La Quarantina” tells her exciting story: Chapter 1 – At the Beach
At the Beach I am a kitten. My name is CiCi, but sometimes I call myself ‘La Quarantina’, since I was born in Castiglione di Garfagnana right in the middle of the pandemic. Castiglione di Garfagnana The little barn that I called home for about a week was great, but my owner Grace promptly whisked […]
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Overcome Jet lag on the way to Lucca: Indulge in a drive on E80
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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Visiting Italy with your pup? Lucca is one of the most dog-friendly cities in the country
PREMERE PER LEGGERE IN ITALIANO Many innovative and valuable interventions by the city’s administration recognize the importance of the human-animal relationship – particularly those bonds formed during COVID. Working in collaboration with the Department of Veterinary Sciences of the University of Pisa for the European research project In-Habit, the city wishes to promote the value […]
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Lucca Trek: 13 itineraries to enjoy on foot or by bike
Extraordinary Lucchesia – the area including Lucca’s city center, its beloved walls and its outer neighborhoods, has fascinating places you should explore. To help, a new map of 13 potential walks and hikes has just been published by the city’s Tourism Board called Lucca Trek. Meander just a few kilometers southwest of the city to […]
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Why Walk Around Lucca’s Walls?
It’s an unforgettably beautiful experience that’s good for you too 😃 Take your choice of pavement, gravel or grass: the park along the top of Lucca’s renaissance walls has all you need to enjoy a quick or leisurely trek under a canopy of trees and within view of the flowers that sprout spontaneously along the […]
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Wine, Witches & More
The outskirts of Montecarlo are a great venue for a hike.
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Tourist BOOM in Lucca
The first five months of 2023 brought a boost in tourism to Lucca unseen except perhaps before COVID: receipts from bus revenue quadrupled, tourist tax income almost doubled and 20,000 more people visited the city’s towers… Assessor Remo Santini asserts: “The quality of this influx benefits all. The city’s identity is the added value that […]
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What they’re saying about Lucca…
CLICK BELOW ELLE Wall Street Journal Barron’s THE CICI CHRONICLES
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Lucca’s own Beatrice Venezi ignites inaugural Puccini Festival
Director Beatrice Venezi is a Lucca born super star who will inaugurate the city’s Puccini Festival in honor of the 100th anniversary of the composer’s death.
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Lucca’s Best Kept Secret Garden
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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COUNTRY PLEASURES OF THE CASENTINO
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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A Country Walk: the perfect getaway
Getting far from the hustle and bustle of city life is simple in Lucca – at about a mile down the viale San Concordio is Sorbano del Vescovo, better known as ‘Sorbanello’. There, just off the path under the acqueducts, lies a grass road along the Lozzori River that dives into fields of sunflowers, hay, […]
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Il settembre lucchese torna in piena forza…
MUSICHE della PROCESSIONE:
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Eventi per dare il benvenuto ai lucchesi rientrati
I soci e gli amici dell’Associazione Lucchesi nel Mondo sono invitati a riservare un posto alle seguenti attività per festeggiare il loro ritorno a Lucca per la Festa di Santa Croce 2022. Si prega di contattare Lucchesi nel Mondo all’indirizzo lucchesinelmondo@virgilio.it o al +39 0583 467855 per prenotare o richiedere maggiori informazioni… 9 settembre, ore […]
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INTERVISTA con il NUOVO SINDACO di LUCCA: MARIO PARDINI
Il 9 agosto 2022 Luccalife.com ha avuto il piacere di intervistare il neoeletto Sindaco di Lucca Mario Pardini nel suo ufficio di Palazzo Orsetti. Il suo dinamismo, intelligenza e approccio considerato al governo della città è eccitante e fresco. Se leggi questo, siamo sicuri che sarai d’accordo con noi…. Il testo della nostra intervista con […]
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Meet the New Mayor: an interview with Mario Pardini, newly elected mayor of Lucca
On 9 August 2022, LuccaLife.com had the pleasure of interviewing the newly elected Mayor of Lucca Mario Pardini at his office in Palazzo Orsetti. His dynamism, intelligence, and thoughtful approach to governing the city is exciting and inspiring. If you read this, we are sure you’ll agree with us…. The text of our interview […]
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Lucca: Star Location Internazionale
Le protagoniste di “Gooische Moeders,” popolare reality olandese, vanno a spasso a Lucca a bordo di un risciò.
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A Family Secret
After the war, my zia Gina continued working as a teacher. The handsome South African soldier named Donny with whom she had fallen in love didn’t write as he had promised, so to divert herself she quickly fell for the attention of a puppy whom she called “Bijoux” – zio Carlo thought the name was […]
Continue ReadingThe War
Before World War II started to impact her and her family’s life directly, my Mom finished her teaching degree but unlike her sister, Gina, who went straight to work at a middle school in Garfagnana, Mom continued her university studies. She studied Chemistry at the University of Pisa after receiving an associate teaching degree because […]
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Watermelon Square ~ Piazza dei Cocomeri
Watermelon Square ~ Piazza dei Cocomeri, may have been named during the centuries when a fruit and vegetable market occupied the square of St. Michael’s Church ~ Piazza San Michele.
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Ritorna per la notte delle stelle cadenti, la quinta edizione di “E Lucevan le stelle” lunedì il 10 agosto, festa di San Lorenzo
Sulle celebri mura rinascimentali della città si esibiranno gratuitamente musicisti jazz e blues, strumentisti classici e cantanti lirici, e ci sarà anche la danza sui baluardi: dal tango al waltz. Dal Baluardo della Libertà al Baluardo San Paolino, gli spettatori potranno passeggiare liberamente e godersi la musica sotto le stelle. Per una visione più ravvicinata […]
Continue ReadingNews – Lucca 5 August 2026
Reaching from Baluardo della Libertà to Baluardo San Paolino, spectators will be able to stroll at will and enjoy the music under the stars.
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The bells ring, and ring
So sad But “love never dies” After 82 years, Don Aldo Mei is still remembered in Lucca for this his saying, and for his courage in the face of Nazi hatred and arrogance. On this day, eighty-two years ago, the young priest was shot just outside Porta Elisa for hiding a radio, and even worse, […]
Continue ReadingLe campane suonano, e suonano
Che tristezza Ma “l’amore non muore“ Dopo 82 anni, a Lucca Don Aldo Mei è ancora ricordato per questo suo detto, e per il suo coraggio di fronte all’odio e alla prepotenza degli nazisti. In questo giorno, ottantadue anni fa, il giovane sacerdote fu fucilato subito fuori di Porta Elisa per aver nascosto una radio […]
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Know a Lucchese who deserves the gold?
PER LEGGERE IN ITALIANO PREMERE QUI NOMINATIONS ARE DUE NOW for candidates to receive a gold medal for lifetime achievement from the Association of Lucchesi in the World. While the citizens of Lucca proudly believe their city is the best in the world, they have a centuries old tradition of leaving it too – whether […]
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NEWS 24 July 2026 Lucca — Sindaco Pardini visits students at the Puccini International Opera Academy
Lucca 23 July 2026 Mayor of Lucca Mario Pardini paid his annual visit to students at the highly competitive Puccini International Opera Composition Academy at the San Michelotto Complex. The young composers from Italy, Spain, Singapore and Mexico, are all at work developing their lyric projects at the Puccini International Opera Composition Course, taught by renowned […]
Continue ReadingNEWS 24 luglio 2026 Lucca — Sindaco Pardini in visita agli studenti del Puccini International Opera Composition Course
Come ogni anno, il sindaco di Lucca Mario Pardini ha fatto visita ieri (23 luglio) presso il Complesso San Micheletto agli studenti del 10° Puccini International Opera Composition Course, organizzato dal Puccini International Opera Composition Academy Lucca e dall’associazione lucchese di musica contemporanea Cluster. Si tratta di un corso internazionale itinerante – diviso tra Lucca e la […]
Continue ReadingNews LUCCA sabato 27 giugno 2026
SINDACO MARIO PARDINI – UN UOMO DI AZIONE Quattr’anni fa, Mario Pardini accettava l’incarico di sindaco di Lucca. Oggi ha tenuto una conferenza stampa nella Sala Rossa di Palazzo Orsetti per riguardare le azioni che ha preso come sindaco, e per rispondere alle domande dei giornalisti. Ecco la nostra trascrizione delle osservazioni del sindaco sulle […]
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LUCCA NEWS 30 giugno 2026
Lucca accelera verso la Smart City La giunta approva avvio della fase competitiva per un grande progetto di innovazione urbana. La giunta comunale di Lucca ha approvato la delibera n.154/2026 con cui viene riconosciuto l’interesse pubblico della proposta di partenariato pubblico-privato finalizzata all’implementazione di un ampio programma di interventi per la trasformazione della città in […]
Continue ReadingLUCCA NEWS 30 June 2026 Lucca accelerates to become a Smart City
City council approved the start of the competitive phase for a large urban innovation project to transform Lucca into a modern, smart and sustainable city with improved efficiencies and connectivity. The municipal council of Lucca has approved resolution no. 154/2026 recognizing the public interest of a proposed public-private partnership to implement the broad program of […]
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