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Lucca Lucca is a small city, rich of sights and history. Here you still can feel the flair of all its important periods: the Roman city, the Medieval city, the Renaissance city, the nineteenth century city: traces of all of these may still be found in the urban fabric. Apart from the significant monuments, such as the sixteenth-seventeenth century Walls, Lucca stands out in its integrity and its atmosphere as a lively and vital centre. Suffice to look down from on high, from one of its towers, or to wander through the narrow, tortuous Medieval streets: the white marble of superb Romanesque churces, the orange-red or the thirteenth-fourteenth century buildings, the grey of the paving stones, the green of the vegetation peeping out all over that heightens the powerful mass of the ramparts and the surfaces of the Walls that rise, almost unreal, out of the lawns of glacis. Lucca has many beautiful attractions. The many romanesque churches, San Michele, the Duomo of San Martino and the Basilica of San Frediano should not be missed. A walk along but a section of the Walls is not to be missed. The ramparts, thirty meters wide at the base and still in their original state, cover over four kilometers. With their vegetation, they make for a highly original public park from which it is possible to enjoy views of the city and the sorrounding hills. A trip to the Torre Guinigi is highly recommended. It offers fabulous view; but it is also one of the city's symbols, it for no other reason then the odd tree planted at the top. Along the same route, a visit should be made to the ninenteenth century Piazza Anfiteatro, built on the remains of the ancient Roman Amphitheatre. Then, proceed to the house of Giacomo Puccini (now museum), and further on to Via del Battistero. This street is the world renowned for its antique dealers. The antiques market on the third Sunday of every month is also famous. For thirty years, it as drawn innumerable antique lovers to the city's plazas and streets.
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