Lucca,  province capital in central Italy, at the Serchio, 95,000 residents, over 4 kilometers long ring wall from the 16th c., romanesque cathedral San Martino (tomb of Jacopo della Quercia), church San Frediano (front mosaic from the 13th c.), church San Michele in Foro (12th and 13th c.).

The completely intact ring wall, 150 years ago changed into a promenade, encloses a medieval city with tight streets and lanes, old houses, towers and palaces as well as over 100 churches. Before the ring wall was built in its current form, it has already given at least two older and smaller walls, from which still today remains are existing. Thus for example at the via San Nicolao and at the via S. Gemma Galgani are still standing two city gates of the previous wall.

 
 

Worth seeing are also the churches San Michele in Foro and San Frediano, the cathedral San Martino, the shopping street via Fillungo, Palazzo and Torre Guinigi (14th c.), the latter is one of the few still existing, plant with stone oaks, clan towers (at the heyday of Lucca in the city there were, inclusive church towers, about 170 towers) and the Piazza Anfiteatro. On the ruins of the Roman amphitheater, churches and houses were built, which now form a beautiful oval square. The best ice, by the way, you can buy at the Gelateria Pinguino in Piazza Napoleone.

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