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Things to do and see in Lucca

View of the Amphitheatre Square in Lucca

Lucca is a pleasant and welcoming city, whose beautiful historic center, clean and orderly, is protected by a vast 16th century enclosure. Among its must-see places, the Piazza dell’Anfiteatro recalls the Roman past of the city having kept the physiognomy of the ancient building. Other beautiful squares are in front of the remarkable churches including […]

Lucca Cathedral

Photo of the facade of San Martin cathedral in Lucca

The superb Lucca Cathedral (In Italian: Duomo di San Martino) is a remarkable example of Romanesque Renaissance architecture. Its construction would go back to the end of the 6th century AD, and rebuilt at the end of the 11th and the work was to follow until the 17th.Its facade in polychrome marbles, inspired by that […]