Category Lucca
Europe 2022 – Lucca, Part Five
June 20 – 22 As we resume our time in Pisa, we left the Baptistry and walked across the property to the two long buildings known as the Camposanto Monumentale or Monumental Cemetery. This walled cemetery is said to have been built around a shipload of sacred soil from Calvary, brought back to Pisa from […]
Europe 2022 – Lucca, Part Three
June 20 – 22 After relaxing at the apartment for a while, we walked the couple of blocks it took us to arrive at Trattoria Da Giulio Surl, where we had made our reservations the day before. The restaurant abuts the outer wall of Lucca and most of the seating is outside. We arrived just […]
Europe 2022 – Lucca, Part Two
June 20 – 22 After breakfast the next day we set out to discover all we could about this charming walled Tuscan city of 89,000, with a provincial population of 384,000. Lucca is known as one of the Italian’s “Città d’arte” (Arts town), thanks to its intact Renaissance-era city walls and its very well-preserved historic […]
Europe 2022 – Lucca, Part One
June 20 – 22 Today would be a long and somewhat complicated day of travel, with three stops, Nice to Ventimiglia, then to Genoa, then to La Spezia Centrale, connecting to Viareggio and finally landing in Lucca. We chose this route primarily because it didn’t require any seat reservations and wasn’t any shorter a trip […]
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