Sourrounding lucca

Surroundings and Tourist Routes

LUCCA

Lucca is a major City of art in Italy, famous even beyond national borders for its intact city walls of the XV-XVII century, which describes a perimeter of about 4450 m around the historic core of the City and is one of the 4 Italian State capitals to have an intact city walls, along with Ferrara, Grosseto, Bergamo, the same circle, already transformed since the second half of pedestrian promenade in nice, it is still one of best preserved in Europe, as ever used in past centuries, a defensive end.
Consequently, the Old Town Historic City has remained intact in its original appearance, could therefore include various architectures honor, like many medieval churches of great architectural richness (Lucca has even been nicknamed the "City by 100 churches, just for the presence of numerous churches in his heart, consecrated or not, in the past and now City), and bell towers, Renaissance palaces and monuments of excellent linearity style. The City also boasts beautiful urban spaces: the most famous is surely to square dell'Anfiteatro, born on the ruins of the Roman amphitheater by the architect Lorenzo pallets and unique architecture.
Main artery of the historic City is the narrow medieval street and Fillungo, which brings together the major business of the City. Other squares are charming Piazza San Michele, the historic heart of the City and Piazza San Martino, where religious centerpiece is the famous Cathedral of San Martino. Precisely for this immense historical and monumental wealth was recently advanced the proposal to include the historical center of Lucca - which is a historical tradition of theater, the Teatro del Giglio, the list of UNESCO World Heritage site.