The house-museum of Giacomo Puccini ( Museo Casa natale di Giacomo Puccini in Italian) is a historical museum located in Lucca and birthplace of the composer. The house – museum occupies the premises of the apartment where the Italian composer was born on December 22 , 1858. The family of Giacomo Puccini moved here in […]
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The Ducal Palace of Lucca (Palazzo Ducale in Italian) is located in Piazza Napoleone. It is also called Palazzo della Signoria or Palazzo della Provincia. In this area, there was the great Fortezza Augusta residence of Castruccio Castracani, and his palace apparently designed by Giotto. The huge complex, which covered about a fifth of the […]
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The Basilica of San Frediano (Basilica di San Frediano in Italian) is one of the oldest churches in Lucca, Tuscany. The Basilica of San Frediano is situated on the homonymous square, it’s in Romanesque style. Despite several interventions over the centuries, the medieval style of the basilica remained quite large. Of great feature is the […]
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A church dedicated to St. Michael was erected in the center of the ancient forum of the Roman city in the eighth century , and then a hospital and a monastery. The renovation of the church of San Michele in Foro began around 1070, by Pope Alexander II . Work on the new church, with […]
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Plebiscite Square (Piazza del Plebiscito, Largo di Palazzo or Foro Regio in Italian) is a square in Naples, located at the end of Via Toledo ,past Piazza Trento e Trieste. Located in the historic center of Naples, with an area of about 25,000 square meters, the square is one of the largest in Italy. Piazza […]
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