{"id":1071,"date":"2024-01-19T02:55:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T01:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/?page_id=1071"},"modified":"2024-01-19T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T01:57:07","slug":"lucca","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/es\/lucca\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucca"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Lucca-miti-yG1MhHFmaoc-unsplash-693x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Lucca free tour\" class=\"wp-image-511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Lucca-miti-yG1MhHFmaoc-unsplash-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Lucca-miti-yG1MhHFmaoc-unsplash-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Lucca-miti-yG1MhHFmaoc-unsplash-768x1135.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Lucca-miti-yG1MhHFmaoc-unsplash-1039x1536.jpg 1039w, https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Lucca-miti-yG1MhHFmaoc-unsplash-1385x2048.jpg 1385w, https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Lucca-miti-yG1MhHFmaoc-unsplash-41x60.jpg 41w, https:\/\/bestfreetour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Lucca-miti-yG1MhHFmaoc-unsplash-scaled.jpg 1731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lucca Free tour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0227905c95b8b1e5e1f6f8539b91edf6 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_xIsed3KWW8\">Lucca Free Tour<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lucca is known as an Italian &#8220;Citt\u00e0 d&#8217;arte&#8221; (City of Art) from its intact <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renaissance\">Renaissance<\/a>-era <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walls_of_Lucca\">city walls<\/a><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucca#cite_note-nytimesmenu-6\">]<\/a><\/sup> and its very well preserved historic center, where, among other buildings and monuments, are located the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piazza_dell%27Anfiteatro\">Piazza dell&#8217;Anfiteatro<\/a>, which has its origins in the second half of the 1st century A.D. ,the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guinigi_Tower\">Guinigi Tower<\/a>, a 45-metre-tall (150\u00a0ft) tower that dates from the 1300s and the Cathedral of San Martino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city is also the birthplace of numerous world-class composers, including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giacomo_Puccini\">Giacomo Puccini<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfredo_Catalani\">Alfredo Catalani<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luigi_Boccherini\">Luigi Boccherini<\/a>. By the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Rome\">Romans<\/a>, Lucca was known as <em>Luca<\/em>. From more recent and concrete toponymic studies, the name Lucca has references that lead to &#8220;sacred grove&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin\">Latin<\/a>: <em>lucus<\/em>), &#8220;to cut&#8221; (Latin: <em>lucare<\/em>) and &#8220;luminous space&#8221; (<em>leuk<\/em>, a term used by the first European populations). The origin apparently refers to a wooded area deforested to make room for light or to a clearing located on a river island of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serchio\">Serchio<\/a> debris, in the middle of wooded areas.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucca#cite_note-11\"><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lucca<\/strong>, city, Toscana (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Tuscany\">Tuscany<\/a>) <em>regione<\/em>, north-central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Italy\">Italy<\/a>. It lies in the valley of the Serchio River and is almost surrounded by hills, with the Apuan Alps to the north and west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/31\/247731-050-343EF433\/Locator-map-Lucca.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/31\/247731-050-343EF433\/Locator-map-Lucca.jpg\" alt=\"Lucca, Italy\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/31\/247731-050-343EF433\/Locator-map-Lucca.jpg\">Lucca, Italy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lucca was a Ligurian and later an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Etruscan\">Etruscan<\/a> town, and the Romans probably established a colony there in 180 bce (mentioned by the Roman historian Livy). The rectangular Roman plan is preserved in Lucca\u2019s central streets, and remains of the walls, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/forum-ancient-Rome\">forum<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/technology\/amphitheater\">amphitheatre<\/a> have been found. Lying at the junction of roads to Parma, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Florence\">Florence<\/a>, Rome, Pisa, and Luni, the town was apparently fairly prosperous and was an early episcopal see. After 476 ce it was ruled successively by the Goths, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/Byzantines\">Byzantines<\/a>, and the Lombards, becoming the residence of one of the three Lombard dukes in Tuscany. Frankish counts replaced the dukes after 774, but the population appears to have remained largely Lombardian. Lucca was the principal city in Tuscany in the 9th and 10th centuries, when its counts became the margraves of Tuscany, and it commanded one of the principal roads between Lombardy and Rome, the Via Francigena. The city began to lose importance in the late 10th century to Florence, which replaced Lucca as the Tuscan capital when the house of Canossa succeeded to the margravate. In 1118 the town was granted a charter of liberties, mainly economic, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/dictionary\/commune\">commune<\/a> of Lucca was probably established soon afterward. Despite numerous conflicts with its powerful neighbours and ambitious noble houses, Lucca largely maintained its independence until it fell to the French in 1799. From 1805 until 1814, Lucca was ruled as a principality by \u00c9lisa Baciocchi, a sister of Napoleon. Assigned by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Congress-of-Vienna\">Congress of Vienna<\/a> (1815) to the Spanish infanta Mar\u00eda Luisa, widow of the former king Louis of Etruria, it passed in 1824 to her son Charles Louis, who ceded it to Tuscany in 1847. It was united to the kingdom of Italy in 1860.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the archiepiscopal city\u2019s numerous churches follow, with their own local variations, a distinctive style found in nearby Pisa; often basilican or Romanesque in structure, many have rich Gothic exterior decorations and some have quadrangular campaniles. Particularly notable are the Cathedral of San Martino (probably founded in the 6th century; rebuilt 1060\u201370; completed 13th\u201314th century); San Frediano (rebuilt 1112\u201347), retaining traces of an 8th-century structure; San Michele in Foro (begun 1143); and Santa Maria Forisportam, begun in the 13th century. Lucca is noted for its well-preserved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/dictionary\/ramparts\">ramparts<\/a> (1561\u20131650) and has many fine 16th-century palaces, notably the Palazzo Pretorio and the Palazzo della Prefettura, the former grand ducal palace, now housing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/National-Art-Gallery\">National Art Gallery<\/a>. There are several other art collections, libraries, and archives. Lucca, long an important musical centre, was the home of the composers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Luigi-Boccherini\">Luigi Boccherini<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Giacomo-Puccini\">Giacomo Puccini<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A road and rail centre, the city is the market town of a rich agricultural region that exports high-quality <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/olive-oil\">olive oil<\/a>. Silk has been manufactured since about the end of the 11th century. Other industries include flour milling and the production of tobacco, paper, textiles, jute goods, and wine. The Serchio is used for waterpower, and an aqueduct (1823\u201332) carries the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/water-supply\">water supply<\/a> from the Pisan mountains. Pop. 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