DISTANCE FROM BORGO AL CERRO: ca 133 km (90
mins)
This charming and delightful historic city
still retains its fortifed and embanked medieval walls, which
are now used as a
public park with lawns and trees.
DON'T MISS
DUOMO(Cathedral)
SAN MICHELE IN FORO Church
PALAZZO MANSI (containing important art collection)
SAN FREDIANO (facade, and works of art inside)
PIAZZA del MERCATO with its distinctive oval shape.
EVENTS
April/May: Lucca music festival
(concerts in various churches)
12 July: historical parade
and Palio della Balestra
13 September: Luminaria
di Santa Croce (solemn, candle-lit procession to commemorate
the miraculous arrival of the "Volto Santo" crucifix)
October/November (bi-annual; years
with even numbers): International Comic-Book Fair
Antiques market (held in much of
the old town centre): every third weekend of the month.
ADVICE
Tourists who decide to visit the city for a few hours only
could round off the day with a brief stop at MONTECATINI,
a lively town with a thermal resort, and full of shops and
places to go to at night, on the road back to Borgo al Cerro.
FINE FOOD AND WINE
Vegetable soups (spelt, artichokes, beans, peas); Folaga alla
Puccini (wild coot with anchovy sauce, fish roe, oil, lemon);
buccellato (sweet dough-nut with aniseed seeds and sun-dried
raisins).
DOC-Wines: Colline Lucchesi
(white and red) and Montecarlo (white and red). |
