14 Sights in Lucca, Italy (with Map and Images)
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San Michele in Foro is a Roman Catholic basilica church in Lucca, Tuscany, central Italy, built over the ancient Roman forum. Until 1370 it was the seat of the Consiglio Maggiore, the commune's most important assembly. It is dedicated to Archangel Michael.
Palazzo Pfanner is a palace and a garden in Lucca, Italy, now converted into a museum of art and artifacts. Originally known as the Palazzo Controni, the building dates to 1667, and is notable mainly for its fine garden, attributed to Filippo Juvarra, and an interesting external stairway with loggia.
Piazza dell'Anfiteatro is a public square in the northeast quadrant of the walled center of Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy. The ring of buildings surrounding the square follows the elliptical shape of the former second century Roman amphitheater of Lucca. The square can be reached through four gateways located at the four vertices of the ellipse. A cross is carved into the central tile of the square with the arms pointing to the four gateways of the square.
The Torre Guinigi is a tower in Lucca in the region of Tuscany, central Italy. It is a typical example of local Romanesque-Gothic architecture. The height of the tower is 45 metres (148 ft) with a total of 233 steps to reach the top.
5. Chiesa di San Francesco
San Francesco is a former Gothic-style Roman-Catholic church and monastery located in Piazza San Francesco in central Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. Since its restoration, it is home to IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, a superior graduate school.
6. Mercato del Carmine
The Mercato del Carmine, once the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, is a historic building in Lucca, located in the center, between Via del Carmine, Via San Gregorio, Via Antonio Mordini and Piazza del Carmine.
7. San Quirico in Monte San Quirico
The church of San Quirico in Monte San Quirico or San Quirico in Monticello is a church in Lucca located in a panoramic position on Monte San Quirico, in via della Chiesa 384. Formerly annexed to a Benedictine monastery of the Casadeian Congregation.
8. Porta Santi Gervasio e Protasio
Porta San Gervasio is a gate of the old walls of Lucca, almost completely demolished with the construction of the Renaissance walls, the latter still visible today. Of the four gates of this thirteenth-century circle, only remains, in addition to the Porta San Gervasio, the Porta dei Borghi located at one of the ends of Via Fillungo.
9. Chiesa di San Giusto
San Giusto is a church in Lucca, Tuscany, central Italy. Built over a pre-existing church, it dates to the second half of the 12th century. Its titular is the 12th century Italian, Giustino Salce, whence the name "San Giusto".
10. Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi
The Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi is one of the two main art museum hosting tapestry collections and mainly post-19th century art collections owned by the city of Lucca, Italy. The collection is displayed in the Baroque palace, formerly belonging to the Mansi family, and located in central Lucca. Many of the original room decorations remain in place.
11. Monastero-santuario di Santa Gemma Galgani
The Santuario di Santa Gemma is a Roman Catholic church-sanctuary devoted to the local saint and mystic Gemma Galgani located on Via di Tiglio outside the medieval walls of Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy.
12. San Benedetto in Gottella
San Benedetto in Gottella is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church located on piazza Bernardin in Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy. The church is located on Piazza Bernardini, near the Palazzo Bernardini, on the route of the ancient decumanus maximus of Lucca.
13. Palazzo Cenami
The Palazzo Cenami is a Renaissance-style palace located on Via Santa Croce in central Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy. The palace was designed in 1530 by Nicolao Civitali. Some attribute the palace's Florentine style of architecture to Agostino Marti in 1501.
14. Chiesa di San Cristoforo
San Cristoforo is a Romanesque and Gothic-style, former Roman Catholic church located on the narrow Via Fillungo in the center of Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy. Now deconsecrated and stripped of its former interior altars and decoration, the chapel served as a memorial for those fallen in the wars..
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