Lucca (7)

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January 29th 2011
We left Pisa and traveled to Lucca which is the only city in Italy whose walls are 100% intact. It is a quaint little Italian town with a fairly even mix of Medieval, Renaissance and Later Buildings, but the walls are definitely the main attraction! The city has paved and planted grass and trees along the top of the wall for pedestrian use. The first thing we did was rent bikes and we pedalled al ... 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