Fillungo street ( Via Fillungo in Italian) is the main street in the center of Lucca. Via Fillungo is one of the most representative symbols of the city as the center and heart of the tourism, stores and craft of Lucca. Via Fillungo is in the center of the city of Lucca (700 meters) and […]
The Guinigi Tower is the most important tower of Lucca, its main feature is the presence of some oaks on its top. In the early fourteenth century, Lucca was proud of over 250 towers and many bell towers that enriched the city in medieval times. The Guinigi, now masters of the city, wanted to soften […]
The Amphitheater square (Piazza dell’Anfiteatro in Italian) is in the city of Lucca, built on the ruins of the ancient Roman amphitheater ( second century AD) . Place Amphitheatre was born in the Middle Ages . In the nineteenth century has been renovated by the architect Lorenzo Nottolini and was freed from small buildings and […]
The Museum of Lucca Cathedral was created in 1992 to protect the furniture from the Dome of San Martino, made since the early Middle Ages and the all the other works removed from the cathedral for reasons of conservation or replaced by more recent authors.
The Cathedral of San Martino ( Dome of Lucca – Duomo di Lucca in Italian) is the main place of Catholic worship in the city of Lucca. According to tradition, Lucca’s Cathedral was founded by San Frediano in the sixth century, then rebuilt by Anselmo da Baggio, bishop of the city, in 1060 and finally […]