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.
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.
Bell'Italia, a well-known television broadcast on air on RAI 3 at 11:00 am, in the episode of January 20 dedicates a nice report to the Clocktower and its centuries-old clock that from Tuesday 16 January will mark the time of Lucca again, as it did for many centuries before it got damaged.
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.
Not only the Middle Ages and Renaissance in the walled city. Art is a habit that has been preserved to this day. In 1977, the Lucchese Association of Art Figurative gave to the Municipality of Lucca 140 works of painting, sculpture and graphics designed for the constitution of a permanent Museum of Modern Art that valorizes the important artistic heritage; since then the collection has been enriched with numerous private donations, which have so far been dispersed in various communal offices or stored in stores that are not accessible to the public.