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In the north part of Tuscany, there’s a particular and unique city, one of the pricipal italian art city. There’s no doubt, your holiday in Tuscany deserves absolutly a stage in Lucca! Lucca rises in a plain strip at the feet of the Apuane Alps, a mountain range that with the Tuscany Apennines form beautiful sceneries, ideal for fond of long walks or out and out trekking.
With roman origin, principally the city of Lucca self developed in the medieval times also thanks to the continous influx of pilgrim along the Francigena Road. This, in the past called Francesca road or Romea representative a pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome, constituted one of the principal european ways of communication. Lucca was able to exploit its religious and artistic importance and so the pilgrims couldn’t leave aside the visit to a famous relic like that of Cristo Crocifisso placed in the Dome of Lucca. What distinguishes Lucca like one of the most historical city of Tuscany and Italy is the boundary wall goes back up the XV-XVI century in the present compliance. Still now intact, the walls of Lucca have about 4450m of perimeter around the historical nucleus of the city and consent to Lucca to be one of the few province italian main town has a historical centre almost unchanged respect to the original. It isn’t among the most celebrated cities of Tuscany but Lucca counting also on architectural and artistic unimaginable greatness hides many churches, towers and bell-towers: infact Lucca is called with the name of city of the one hundred churches.
In the centre of Lucca alleys comes out in big square, renaissance palaces and famous spaces like Anfiteatro Square are contour of a city connected by a principal arterial road: Fillungo Road. Principal street of the city it picks the major part of the Lucca commercial years and innumerable little typical restaurants where you can spend a pause for tasting some palatable dish in the tuscany style.
It’s not difficul reach Lucca leaving from our villa in Arezzo, entrust for example to our partner’s tour will bring you to the discovery of the medieval Lucca and after a day trip enjoy you the relax that only a tuscan villa like Villa Le Fonti can gives you!

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