The summer is not yet over and Viareggio's tank drivers are already busy with their work to prepare another fantastic edition of the Carnival. In advance the papier-mâché magicians submit their projects to a commission of experts, which, if approved, will come to life in floats and masquerades on foot, giving rise to real traveling theaters accompanied by music, dancing and singing of costumed figures.  The raw material of the floats is papier-mâché, or rather cast paper, which makes it possible to create impressive but at the same time light works.

Night of San Lorenzo, this year the show will be extraordinary, the astronomers promise, with ... scrambles up to Ferragosto.
With the new moon and the clear sky this week the Perseiadi, ie the meteors associated with the night of August 10th, the Lacrime di San Lorenzo, are super-active and clearly visible.
To guarantee the best performance, they recommend waiting for the central hours of the night, when the constellation of Perseus is high in the sky and, in theory, one could even see a hundred meteors per hour.

Where to go, however, to guarantee the show?

To celebrate the 160th anniversary of the birth of Giacomo Puccini City of Lucca, Lucca Summer Festival and Teatro del Giglio join forces in the name of music for a special event on the evening of 27 July next in Piazza Napoleone.
A party to which everyone is invited.

Many opportunities, throughout the summer, to meet ... Giacomo Puccini.
Exhibitions, itineraries, projections, guided tours, landscapes and above all, lots of music!

Lucca contribute to the 2018 "Arcobaleno d'estate" billboard, the event held during the Summer Solstice with the realization of some interesting events.

Extraordinary opening from 19:00 to 24:00, of the underground of bastions San Regolo and San Colombano, Torre delle Ore and Torre Guinigi where you will live a particular atmosphere thanks to the students of the Boccherini Institute that will welcome visitors by performing arias of classical music.

Spring air in the Museums of Tuscany! from 18 May to 3 June 2018 doors with guided tours, extraordinary exhibitions, animations and workshops for children and adults.
A program with many different activities united by an identical passion: return the cultural heritage to the community with proposals that satisfy the curiosity of every visitor, because the museum is really a friend who never betrays! Every time, a discovery and a unique emotion!

"Deredia in Lucca. The cosmic energy in the sculptures of Jiménez Deredia" From 28 April to 10 September 2018 Lucca will become an open-air exhibition, hosting the monumental works of the artist Jiménez Deredia in the main squares of the historic center. The circular and oval shapes present in the artist's works accompany the spectator in a fluid and harmonious path, inserted within the urban fabric. Jiménez Deredia presents a symbolic-transmutative sculpture of an organic character, which describes cosmic participation.

The eleventh edition of VerdeMura will open next Friday, 6 April, an exhibition of gardening and outdoor living that brings to Lucca over 230 exhibitors from all over Italy and a large audience of visitors interested in plants, flowers, and nice to inaugurate the beautiful season in one of the most fascinating Italian cities and open to the world of greenery and the garden.

New location of the event, in the section of urban walls between Baluardo Santa Croce and Baluardo San Donato:

Lucca is reconfirmed "city of music" paying particular attention to the musical productions of that eighteenth century music that, as is known, had in the city of Lucca one of its world capitals. Once again, the specific contribution from Lucca will stand alongside the greatest European composers of the time, from Bach to Haydn and from Händel to Mozart.

The 2018 edition of the festival includes over 40 events between January and December dedicated to Lucca's eighteenth-century music and distributed in various musical programs

A public meeting on the strategic choices in view of the creation of a homogeneous tourist offer in Tuscany.
After the events held in Fucecchio, Pontremoli and Siena, o Friday January 19, “La nostra Francigena. Territori protagonisti del tempo delle scelte” (Territories as protagonists of the time of choices) will also take place in Lucca, at Palazzo Ducale.