What to do & see in Lucca – Con articoli anche in italiano
Everyday is game day at Lucca Comics & Games 2026. Bring all your friends and try out new board games — just be sure to reserve a space at the Pokémon Play Lab in advance. The free experience fills up fast.
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From a promising dream to an international reality, LC&G celebrates its 60th year highlighting the talents that have made it the largest comics convention in the West.
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Carpets of color on top of the iconic MURA set a NEW Record for the Guiness Book of World Records Lucca broke into the record books today with more than 4 kilometers of images celebrating Lucca’s traditions, events and art throughout the year. Over the span of just 10 hours on August 22, 2026, volunteers […]
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“We’ve tried to make Lucca increasingly international, managing quantity while focusing on quality. It’s working.” –Mario Pardini, Mayor
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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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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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Fred the mascot welcomes guests to Lucca Hostel and Rooms San Frediano
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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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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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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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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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Leggete cos’è successo nel 2025 e domani sentiremo come sarà ancora più below nel 2026…
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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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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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CLICK BELOW ELLE Wall Street Journal Barron’s THE CICI CHRONICLES
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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 lucchesinelmondo@virgilio.it 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.
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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 ReadingReaching 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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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 ReadingChe 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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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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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 ReadingCome 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 […]
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