Museums & Visits

Villa Guinigi National Museum

Address: Via della Quarquonia, 4, 55100 Lucca LU
Notes: Archaeology

Palazzo Mansi National Museum

Address: Via Galli Tassi, 43, 55100 Lucca LU
Notes: museum-residence, example of Lucca merchant's dwelling, paintings, textiles

Puccini Birthplace Museum and Villino Viareggio

Birth House Address: Corte S. Lorenzo, 9, 55100 Lucca LU
Villino Address: Viale Michelangelo Buonarroti, 55049 Viareggio LU
Notes: Birth House of Giacomo Puccini

Lucca Biennale Cartasia

Address: Palazzo Guinigi, Via Guinigi, 29, 55100 Lucca LU
Notes: Architecture and Paper

Spazio Cavallerizza Lucca

Address: Piazzale Giuseppe Verdi, 55100 Lucca LU
Notes: Painting and Sculpture, Coins

Ragghianti Study Center

Address: Via S. Micheletto, 3, 55100 Lucca LU
Notes: Painting and Sculpture, Exhibitions

Ancient Mint of Lucca Foundation

Address: Casermetta San Donato, Piazzale Giuseppe Verdi, Via delle Mura Urbane, 55100 Lucca LU
Notes: Mint

Barsanti and Matteucci Museum

Address: Via Sant'Andrea, 58, 55100 Lucca LU
Notes: History Combustion Engine

Underground Lucca

Information: For information regarding the tour visit the link
Notes: Underground Walls

Botanical Garden

Address: Via del Giardino Botanico, 14 55100 Lucca (LU) - ITALY
Note: Botanical Garden of Lucca

Guinigi Tower and Tower of Hours

Guinigi Tower Address: Via Guinigi, 29, 55100 Lucca LU
Ore Tower Address: Via Fillungo, 55100 Lucca LU

Museum of the Cathedral of Lucca

Address: St. Martin's Square
Notes: Cattedarele, Bell Tower, Ilaria del Carretto, Museum, St. John's

Bell Tower of S. Frediano

Address: Piazza San Frediano
Notes: Bell Tower, Church S. Frediano, S. Zita

Lucca Antiques Market

Address: Piazza San Martino and surroundings
Notes: Saturday and Sunday, 3rd weekend of the month; it is the 2nd in Italy, as the date of creation, after the one in Arezzo

Cathedral of St. Martin

Address: Piazza S. martino - 55100 Lucca
Notes:

  • See crucifix of the Holy Face (currently under restoration)
  • monument Ilaria Del Carretto
  • painting
  • Last Supper by Tintoretto
  • outside the Labyrinth (one of the most enigmatic bas-relief figures in Italy)
  • View and tour of the bell tower
  • Cathedral Museum

the evening of September 13 the procession of St. Cross arrives here; see page visits.

Church of San Frediano

Address: Piazza San Frediano - 55100 Lucca
Notes:

  • See Façade with mosaic from the 13th-14th cent.
  • Baptismal font from the 12th
  • View and visit the
  • steeple;

September 13 evening from the church starts procession of St. Cross.

Church of San Michele in Foro

Address: Piazza S. Michele - 55100 Lucca
Notes: Beautiful square with chains, center of the ancient Roman camp; very high facade with statue of the Archangel St. Michael 4 meters high; On the finger of the 'angel is a ring with a precious stone, which from a specific place in the square you can see shining (actually the places are more than one, try to find them .....)

Church of S. Maria Corteorlandini (S. Maria Nera)

Address: Piazza S. Maria Corteorlandini, 10A - 55100 Lucca
Notes: Lucca Baroque with a chapel in which the house and statue of the Black Madonna of Loreto is faithfully reproduced. A nativity scene with large statues dressed in 1600s fabrics is displayed at Christmas time, and for Christmas Mass the altar is decorated with a silk antependium with silver, gold and 17th-century Trapani coral. Open after morning and afternoon Mass.

St. Mary of the Rose Church

Address: Via della Rosa, 25 - 55100 Lucca
Notes: The inner left wall is a section of the first Roman walls of Lucca. Frequented by St. Gemma Galgani (the original pew where she prayed is immediately to the right beside the main entrance).

Oratory of the Guardian Angels

Address: Via dell'Angelo Custode, 30 - 55100 Lucca
Notes: Small baroque jewel from the mid-seventeenth century

Royal Villa of Marlia

Address: Via Fraga Alta, 2, 55014 Marlia LU

Villa Torrigiani

Address: Via Stradone di Camigliano, 3, 55012 Capannori LU

Pinocchio Park

Address: SP35, 51012 Collodi (PT)
Notes: Carlo Collodi is the author of the stories about Pinocchio, the world-famous puppet; visit the park-garden dedicated to Pinocchio and his characters (The Whale, The Cat, The Fox, ...).

Nottolini Aqueduct

Address: Via Tempietto 388, 55100 Lucca
Notes: Built by Luisa di Borbone, no longer in use, start from the Tempietto di S. Concordio, to get to the Tempietto di Guamo. Nature walk, on foot or by bicycle, about 4 km.

Villa G. Puccini Torre del Lago

Address: Viale Giacomo Puccini, 266, 55049 Torre del Lago Puccini LU
Notes: Villa of Giacomo Puccini, where he is buried

Cave Antro del Corchia

Address: Via Della Chiesa 8, 55040 Levigliani, Seravezza (LU)
Notes: the largest cave in Italy and one of the top 5 in Europe, with 70 km of tunnels

Casoli: the town of graffiti

Address: Casoli, Camaiore (LU)
Notes: Tour of the village streets decorated with numerous graffiti

Former Henraux Quarry Seravezza

Address: From Castel nuovo to the provincial road to Arni
Notes: abandoned quarry and at the entrance there is still the inscription "HENRAUX", High vertical walls of white marble, precipices and small ponds created by rainwater: this is the spectacle after the very high entrance. One derve to be careful since , there are no protective railings and especially after rain the ground is very slippery. The heart of the mountain is exposed, cold, white and shaped. With the passage of time and because of mining, the landscape and the very shape of the mountains have changed considerably. Today they have put the quarries in the Apuan Alps above 1,200 meters high under protection, and a can no longer be quarried. In this way the peaks will be preserved and the landscape will no longer be disrupted. The silence and the glare of the sun on the white marble make the place very atmospheric

Birthplace of Joshua Carducci

Address: Frazione Valdicastello, Pietrasanta ( lu )
Notes: Birthplace of the great poet.

Puccini Bicycle Pathway

Address: From Mount S Quirico to Lake Massaciuccoli
Notes: Approximately 33 km one way.

Birdwatching Oasis

Address: Massaciuccoli - km 15
Notes: Birdwatching, guided tours aboard marsh boats or walking on a spectacular wooden footbridge literally inside the lake

Viareggio Antiques Market

Address: Via Fratti and Piazza Cavour Viareggio - km 25
Notes: Saturday and Sunday, 4th weekend of the month

Forte dei Marmi Antiques Market

Address: Piazza Dante - Forte dei Marmi
Notes: Saturday and Sunday, 2nd weekend of the month

Pietrasanta Antiques Market

Address: Piazza Statuto - Pietrasanta
Notes: Sunday, 1st weekend of the month

Puccini Cells Museum

Address: Via Meletori, 27, 55064 Celle LU

Magdalene Bridge (Devil's Bridge)

Address: SS12 Ponte Del Diavolo 13, 55023 Borgo a Mozzano (LU) Km 30

Barga

Address: Barga
Notes: Visit the old town and the cathedral; there are , with strong connections to Scotland

Wind Cave

Address: Locality Grotta del Vento 1, Fornovolasco 55021 Gallicano (LU) km 40
Notes: Splendid cave that can be visited with different routes; one of the most complete tourist caves de Europe

Lake and Park of Vagli

Address: Via Europa 2 | Vagli di Sotto ( Lu ) - km 60
Notes: Ghost town, angel flight and suspension bridge over lake

Verrucole Fortress

Address: Via del Forte, 25 - Verrucole - San Romano in Garfagnana - Km 65
Notes: Perfectly preserved houses a medieval museum and archeopark; , Events

House Museum of Giovanni Pascoli

Address: Via per il Ciocco Hotel Castelvecchio Pascoli - 55051 Barga - (Lu)
Notes: Where the great poet lived from 1902 until his death in 1953

Galgani Ironworks

Address: San Giuseppe 55064 Convalle/Piegaio, 55064 Pescaglia (LU)
Phone: +39 346 512 3885
Notes: It is more than 500 years old. Carlo Galgani now remains the only blacksmith in Italy to work iron with the power of water

Orrido di Botri

Address: Towards Fornoli, then towards Tereglio, SP 56, and follow for Ponte a Gaio-Orrido di Botri.
Notes: This is a spectacular limestone gorge on the slopes of the Rondinaio and Tre Potenze mountains with steep walls carved deep by the cold waters of the Mariana and Ribellino streams, which then join to form the Rio Pelago. Nesting site of the golden eagle

Barga Antiques Market

Address: Historical center of barga
Notes: Saturday and Sunday, 2nd weekend of the month

Castiglione di Garfagnana

Address: Castiglione di Garfagnana, 55033 LU - 51 Km
Note: Well-preserved medieval village, on the road from Castelnuovo Garfagnana to Passo delle Radici