What to do & see in Lucca – Con articoli anche in italiano
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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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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The rain never seems to last long in Lucca…
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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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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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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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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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The outskirts of Montecarlo are a great venue for a hike.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 [email protected] o al +39 0583 467855 per prenotare o richiedere maggiori informazioni… 9 settembre, ore […]
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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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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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Le protagoniste di “Gooische Moeders,” popolare reality olandese, vanno a spasso a Lucca a bordo di un risciò.
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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 ReadingBefore 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, may have been named during the centuries when a fruit and vegetable market occupied the square of St. Michael’s Church ~ Piazza San Michele.
Continue Readingn. 18 maggio 1923 m. 20 marzo 2020 Sempre sorridente, coraggiosa e senz’altro testona, Giovanna (o Joan come si fece chiamare negli stati uniti), non si faceva abbattere dagli pregiudizi e ignoranza della gente. Diventava indigna quando le regole non erano seguite. Durante la guerra, avendo completato una laurea all’Istituto Magistrale Statale Paladini e essendo […]
Continue ReadingSebbene i cittadini di Lucca credano con orgoglio che la loro città sia la migliore al mondo, anche loro hanno una tradizione secolare di tante ragioni per lasciarla: sia per fare fortuna, fuggire persecuzioni religiose, per vendere la seta, l’olio d’oliva o figurine, tanti se ne vanno ma raramente lo fanno senza l’intenzione di ritornare […]
Continue Reading28 May 1923 – 20 June 2020 Always smiling, courageous and undoubtedly stubborn, Giovanna (or Joan as she called herself in the United States) Bedini Roberti, did not let people’s prejudices and ignorance slow her down. She became indignant when rules weren’t followed. During the war, having completed her master’s degree at the Istituto Statale […]
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Nonostante la bassa stagione e le previsioni di pioggia per la fine settimana di Pasqua, gli agriturismi lucchesi hanno registrato l’esaurito con turisti europei, i quali hanno invaso pure i ristoranti della regione. Attirare turisti anche durante i periodi tradizionalmente “lenti” è stata una grande vittoria per l’amministrazione di Sindaco Mario Pardini che aveva questo […]
Continue Reading”Interventi innovativi e preziosi, verso una città sempre più inclusiva e consapevole dell’importanza del rapporto uomo-animale” Proseguono a grande ritmo le attività del Comune di Lucca, in collaborazione con il Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie dell’Università di Pisa, per il progetto europeo di ricerca In-Habit, con iniziative volte alla valorizzazione e promozione dei benefici psicofisici discendenti […]
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