Lucca holiday apartment

The house is close to lucca centre, in a beautiful area, sant'angelo.The place can be easely reached by car from freeway or pubblic transport from railway station or citybus. Nice seaside resort and versilia beaches are at 30 Km distance. Beautifull serchio valley, with Borgo a Mozzano, Castelnuovo Garfagnana and a lot of very interesting medieval old places. This is one of the most beautiful and famous art cities of Italy, is walled fortifications of the sixteenth century, rich in churches and monuments to visit. The name of this city comes from the Celtic word 'luk' meaning 'marshy place'. Before being taken by the Etruscans, was a Ligurian settlement, then there were the Etruscans to the Romans who made Lucca one of their municipalities nell'89 ac After the fall of the Roman Empire came the Goths and Lombards, and in the twelfth century Lucca became a thriving commercial center.

In the fourteenth century, internal struggles between the various lordships of the place, marked a period of political distortion until 1369 when it was given a republican system that lasted for more than four centuries. In XVIII century the city was occupied by the French and given to Napoleon's sister, Elisa Baciocchi and thereafter came under the Bourbons and later under the Grand Duchy of Tuscany at the end of 1800. Lucca is one of the few towns which has maintained intact its superb 16 C entury City Walls which protectingly encircle it, a charming place to stroll among the trees and grassy banksancient town walls intact. Lucca is situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plain near the Tyrrhenian Sea. It's famous for its walls all around the ancient town: they are still fully intact today; each of the four principal sides is lined with a different tree species.

Lucca is even the birthplace of composers Francesco Geminiani, Gioseffo Guami, Luigi Boccherini, Giacomo Puccini and Alfredo Catalani.

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