Excitement for Pardini’s New Council
Mayor Mario Pardini and his new Council of administrative advisors.
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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.
Continue ReadingRinging 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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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 […]
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Mayor 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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Art 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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Walls of Lucca: No barriers to their beauty
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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What to STILL love about Lucca: COVID or No COVID
With the latest restrictions on travel and interactions outside one’s family making life so difficult, I thought it was a good time to UPDATE & repost an article by my happy self six months ago… Having arrived May 13th, I am looking forward to completing my first week soon! (In the spring, everyone arriving from […]
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