Piazza Amfiteatro from above

Antiquing in Lucca

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May 18th 2008
It's great how you can wake up on a Sunday morning and decide on the spot to visit a little town in Tuscany. For me that town was Lucca. All day it was raining so luckily there wasn't a whole lot of sightseeing in Lucca. There's a Cathedral, a Baptistry on ancient ruins, a couple of nice piazzas, nicely preserved medieval fortification walls, and a museum. That's all we managed to find of typical ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more