What to do & see in Lucca – Con articoli anche in italiano
Colloquiums about art, music and literature for the curious thanks to the Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti Foundation The first course in the series, on the topic of Neoclassicism, starts Thursday, July 7, 2022, at 6pm. Classes will meet in the conference room “Vincenzo da Massa Carrara” in the San Micheletto Complex (in via San […]
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The bells of the neighborhood church, San Tommaso in Pelleria, rang happily and perhaps a bit madly today as students practiced their rope-pulling technique, much to the joy of passersby walking, biking and running along the top of Lucca’s renown renaissance walls.
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Dopo il loro pranzo con il Dottor Nespolo, Doppio R Guinigi e la sua bella moglie Gigi camminarono fino ad un piccolo caffè in piazza San Frediano di fronte alla chiesa. Si misero ad un tavolino esterno. Il proprietario del caffè li vide e andò subito al loro tavolo: “E’ un onore ospitare una persona […]
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LuccaLife believes that the Pardini administration should be strongly applauded for putting on hold the bidding process for installing several kilometers of proposed new barriers atop the city’s iconic Walls, a project initiated by the previous Tambellini administration just two days before the run-off election that brought new Mayor Mario Pardini to office June 27th. […]
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“…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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by Carlo Rey Lacsamana These past few days there have been rumors of an impending snowfall. Snow in this tiny corner of Tuscany is as rare as truffles. Not everybody is a fan of snow for it provokes various discomforts and annoyances and the year 2020 had given us a little too much of them […]
Continue Readingdi Carlo Rey Lacsamana In questi giorni si vocifera di un imminente nevicata. La neve in questo minuscolo angolo di Toscana è rara come il tartufo. Non tutti sono appassionati di neve perché provoca diversi disagi e fastidi e il 2020 già ce ne ha regalati parecchi. Ma nessuno, presumo, possa negare la bellezza eterea […]
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di Carlo Rey Lacsamana Al caffè, ascoltare i discorsi degli altri è una conseguenza naturale della frequentazione del locale stesso. Sono varie le conversazioni dei clienti, tanto da dare vita ad una miscela di questioni: si parla di argomenti politici, di affari di amore, di sport, di scuola, di svariati interessi personali, dei fatti collegati […]
Continue Readingby Carlo Rey Lacsamana In the café eavesdropping becomes permissible as a consequence of hanging out. Various shades of conversations, a salad of issues: politics, love affairs, work, school, passions, ambitions, news, pandemic… Everything is indulged in: the banal, the ridiculous, the cant, the outrageous, the pitiful… No topic goes to waste. Café people’s appetite […]
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