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Lucca Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Lucca, Italy
Lucca, the walls that are a park!
... around the city walls! It is so unique and beautiful. The town with in the walls is beautiful old architecture with 100 churches inside! Lucca is visited by tourist but it has not gone to their head. It is still a town where people live and work oblivious ...
the Mafia strikes . . .
... smashed and bag with laptop and other things pinched - in broad daylight too . . Soured our view of Lucca somewhat as you could imagine. Feverish series of phonecalls to Peugeot Open Europe (lease company), who weren't particularly ...
Lucca
... drizzly. However, because of our adventures in the car we were given the car for free for another day. We drove to Lucca and just pottered around there visiting the various churches and then the outside of Puccini's house (inside was closed for ...
The Wonderful Walled City
... to our reckoning) most of Lucca. This included going up not one but two bell towers (one ticket covered both) and a look inside Lucca's walls. There was a free exhibition on inside an area of Lucca's walls that gave a brief history of… Lucca’s ...
First weekend in Florence and Lucca
... nothing to get our attention, and it made for an extremely uncomfortable train ride. Some interesting and unexpected things about Italy- Pringles are EVERYWHERE. American music is all they listen to. And for you simpsons fans out there, Duff is also ...
Bike riding throughout wine country
... for 3 Euros to ride around the city wall. We just happened to Lucca on National Bike Day. This was awesome because literally everyone in Lucca was on a bike, it didn't matter if you were 4 or 80, it seemed as though everyone was riding a bike. This was ...
Chianti Region
· Today was our last day with the teapot. We headed to the Chianti region, starting at Greve, about 1.5 hrs from here. · The Chianti Road (Strada Chiantigiana - highway SR 222) is the famous wine country road thru the vineyards, olive groves and ...
Lucca to Bologna.
Well, we can't help but feel that we have cheated ourselves of some time in Lucca. After wandering around the town last night and this morning, can't help but feel that another couple of days in this area would have been great. Why, H even found out that ...
Grotto del Vento ja Lucca
... arvates oli tütarlapselik. Peale sööki asjad kokku ja tänased sihtpunktid olid Grotto del Vento (koobas) mägedes ja Lucca vanalinn. Alustasime mägedesse sõitu ja seekord valisime ilma kiirteedeta marsruudi. Kohe peale sõidu alustamist nägin meest ...
Lucca
... . It poured all day on Sunday and the shops are closed so I walked most of the way around and called into the Lucca Gallery of Contemporary Art. There was a very strange exhibition on called Paint where the artist started on white canvas, colored the ...
Living La Dolce Vita: Pt 1
It's easy to feel rather civilized and satisfied with oneself, when sitting outside an enoteca on the Piazza San Marino in Lucca at sunset, eating some damn fine bruschetta, washing it down with a fulsome local Merlot, and listening to 100 choral voices ...
Bello Italia
... didn't disappoint. We made it all the way to Monterosso, the fifth town, and celebrated with a glass of wine served by Italy's version of a Dude Bro (Rebecca, that was for you). We were feeling very confident in our travel skills and our knowledge of ...
Under the Tuscan Sun, Part I: Lucca
Lucca reminded me a lot of Hopkinton, my hometown, except that Lucca is smaller, cuter, and completely enclosed by huge, Renaissance-era walls. Lucca is one of the last standing walled cities in Tuscany. While other cities in the region knocked ...
Two more days.
... close and not to visit Firenza. We spent only three hours there and then decided it was time to return to the relative sanity of Lucca. I have the last of this and that in the refrigerator which we will finish up at lunch. Last night we ...
Lucca
... that was a site. Mom got a picture of that, you could put 3 of those smart cars in the Hummer. Pretty crazy. Anyway back to Lucca, there have been 3 different phases of the walls around the city, the first was in Roman times, that is how old Lucca it was ...
Tuscany
... beautiful a beautiful view over the olives out to the Mediterranean. Pretty impressive! We spent one day in the little walled city of Lucca which is about half an hours drive from the farm. Hugh and I hired a tandem bike and rode around the city walls ...
Day 8 - 3rd Winery, Lucca, & Last Supper
... bottles of wine to finish on the bus ride to Lucca. Lucca was nice, but I doubt anyone really cared or remembered at that point. After Lucca we headed back to the hotel to get sobered up and we were off to a fairwell dinner at a real Counts house up on a ...
Dal Duomo a San Frediano
Da Piazza del Duomo si passa in Piazza degli Antelminelli, dove si trova il Museo della Cattedrale. Da qui si raggiunge in breve la chiesa di San Giovanni e, prima di entrare in piazza Napoleone, la chiesetta di San Giusto. Da Piazza Napoleone si prende ...
Biking in the Rain
... never get the chance to please your self. After a hour and forty five min train ride and a little snooze, I arrived in Lucca. it was a small station. I purchased a rain proof map and began my mini adventure. It was raining when I walked ...
Lucca
... - and while checking out the menu, an american couple from California started chatting with us. They were on a religious pilgrimage to Italy and were checking out lots of different cathedrals in Italy. Julie and saying them it was nice to meet them and we ...
Under the Tuscan Sun - seriously, it was hot!
... we headed for a tour of the hot baths and surrounding area. Marco explained how many of the houses were made by rich families from Lucca who had a townhouse , a country house and a hot spa house. And then he told us that many of the houses had hot natural ...
Florence to Lucca
... time. She's a better driver than navigator :-D. Only hiccup so far was hot Sergio refusing to start when we stopped in Lucca to find the hotel. 10 minutes cooling whilst we grabbed a coke and off he went delivering us safely to our first destination ...
Rain!!!
We had planned to explore Lucca, but woke up to rain, which hadn't been forecasted until the afternoon and mainly Thursday. So we changed our plans and had a day in the apartment so that the kids could catch up on their homework. I walked to the ...
BEAUTIFUL ONE DAY! PERFECT THE NEXT
... the city. from on the wall you get a great view of what goes on outside the walls, and also how large but contained Lucca is. At various points on the wall, both sides are lined by magnificant trees. Also groups of italian men, sit at tables, chatting ...
Galeazza to Lucca - Lamborghini Museum
Moving On Today we drove from the Bologna countryside south and west to Lucca. Our stay at Galeazza Castle was the biggest unknown before our trip. We read the website and looked at pictures but really couldn't quite grasp exactly what we were in ...
The Tuscan skies
Will update later on the Swiss portion of the trip with the Gibsons and the Burgers. Great time. We just finished a day visiting the marble mines of Cararra in Tuscany and toured the city of Pescia. Back on line when I get to a computer ...
That's a strange place for a tree
... the image of the last gate, we returned our bikes and headed for the train for the ride back to Florence. For me, I think Lucca was one of my favorite experiences so far. I don't know if it was the relaxing bike ride on top of the ...
Sideshow Mel On Wacky Sauce
... . I had the pleasure of going through Milan and Florence to get here. The first thing I noticed upon arriving in Italy is the architecture and how old everything is. Customs was no problem. Pretty much just walk right into the ...
Lucca
We got the train from our campsite, in Pisa, to Lucca, a medieval walled city. It was sweltering hot and we were fumbling around with the ticket machine at the station. Eventually we managed to buy our tickets only to have one of them chewed ...
A little Lucca goes a loooong way!
... Pisans. The composer Puccini was born in Lucca and Karen and Becky toured his house. His most famous opera is Madame Butterfly. Lucca however, does not have the glory that is Florence. We strolled the streets, bought some sandwiches for supper, and ate ...