In the authentic Tuscan city of Lucca, enjoy a top-quality cooking class learning about the Italian gastronomy from the chef!
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Lucca: your ultimate guide [2 to 5 days]
Text: Claire LessiauPhotographs: Claire Lessiau & Marcella van Alphen Lucca is this kind of city. The more time you spend here, the longer you want to stay. Yes, the picturesque walled Tuscan city at the foot of the Apennine Mountains and along the Serchio River is touristy. Still it remains an authentic city with a…
Exploring the white waters of the Apuan Alps [Bagni di Lucca, Tuscany]
Close to Lucca, discover an outdoor paradise!
In Puccini’s footsteps in & around Lucca [Italy]
Follow the footsteps of the beloved composer Giacomo Puccini in his birth town of Lucca, Tuscany.
The Saint Paolino celebrations in Lucca
Text: Claire LessiauPhotographs: Marcella van Alphen Paolino (or Paulinus) is the patron of Lucca and, according to the legend, its first bishop sent by Saint Peter himself to evangelize the Lucchese about 2,000 years ago. Celebrated since the Middle Ages, it is in 1664, the day of his holiday, on July 12, that Paolino became…