Le campane della tradizione: i giorni che fanno onore a San Paolino
Sindaco di Lucca, Mario Pardini, accende il cero dato come tributo dalla città al suo Patrone San Paolino durante la messa festiva.
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Ringing in Tradition: Feast Days Honor St. Paul
FIRST you will notice the red and white flags hanging over shoppers in the narrow lane of via San Paolino. You might hear distant drumming and horns, but the most engaging sound is the joyful ringing of church bells from every corner of the city. There’s more bell-tolling than one would expect even on a […]
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AS Lucchese Update: No News is Bad News
No deal has been announced to acquire AS Lucchese, so by June 21st the team’s owners face the obligation of providing assurances, including personal guarantees, to keep the organization afloat for another season. The possibility that a buyer will materialize before then to purchase the team now seems highly unlikely. Then there is the technical […]
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La manifattura: stimolo per le arti?
Tratto da La Nazione, 2 luglio 2022: Lucca – Si torna a parlare del futuro della Manifattura. Dopo lunghi mesi di silenzio e con, di fatto, l’ultimo atto che è stato l’acquisto all’asta di una parte dell’edificio inizialmente destinato al project financing di Coima e Fondazione Cassa, adesso nasce Polimea-Lucca, il patto per la rigenerazione culturale e urbana […]
Continue ReadingEx-Manifattura: Proposed Incubator for the Arts
From La Nazione, 2 July 2022: Lucca – The future of the former Manifatture dei Tabacchi again is being discussed. After many long months of silence – the last action being the purchase at auction of a part of the building originally intended for project financing by COIMA and the Foundation of the Cassa di […]
Continue ReadingMayor Pardini meets with AS Lucchese about selling the series C soccer team to an Australian-Italian
This, even if 6 days ago, the team’s president, Vichi, denied any deal had been struck with Nick Scali Furniture of Sydney Lucca’s new Mayor Mario Pardini met with the four owners of the Red & Black at 3 pm at Porta Elisa Stadium yesterday to learn about their efforts to sell the team. A […]
Continue ReadingTeam Lucchese, il sindaco incontra i soci: l’accordo con Scali alla stretta finale
Questo anche se 6 giorni fa, il presidente della RossoNera Vichi ha smentito che erano interessati a cessare a Sydney Il sindaco Mario Pardini ieri alle 15 ha incontrato i quattro soci rossoneri allo stadio Porta Elisa Nelle prossime 48 ore attesa la firma: l’italo-australiano parte sabato da Sidney LUCCA. Dieci minuti interlocutori, per conoscersi […]
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Alla Fondazione Ragghianti: Percorsi di storia dell’arte
Conversazioni tra arti, musica e letteratura grazie alla Fondazione Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti Giovedì 7 luglio alle ore 18, nella Sala conferenze “Vincenzo da Massa Carrara” del Complesso monumentale di San Micheletto (in via San Micheletto 3) a Lucca prende avvio il corso di storia dell’arte ideato e tenuto dal direttore della Fondazione Ragghianti […]
Continue ReadingArt History classes for modern times, open to the public for free
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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Bells Sound in Pelleria
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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