August 15th, Ferragosto in Italy, is approaching.
"Ferragosto" is one of the most popular bank holydays in Italy. Whether you're staying in town or visiting, here are our tips for the hottest day of the summer. A "fan" of fresh opportunities to be enjoyed at a slow pace among museums, historical and artistic beauties, moonlight evening, events and craft markets.

With the #IovadoalMuseo initiative promoted by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, the number of ticket free days in the state places of culture, chosen directly by each museum in relation to the specificity of the territory to which it belongs, will increase. For the National Museums of Lucca, Palazzo Mansi and Villa Guinigi, the next days with free admission are Saturday 7, 14, 21 and 28 September, on the occasion of the celebrations of September in Lucca.

In 742, he arrived in Lucca, on a cart drawn by indomitable oxen and after crossing the Mediterranean Sea on an unmanned boat, a mysterious dark-skinned crucifix.

Every year in the first weekend of September the city walls of Lucca on the bastions of San Regolo, La Libertà, in the Botanical Garden and in the basement of the walls host Murabilia, the market exhibition of quality gardening, one of the most important Italian events dedicated to flowers, plants and gardening.
About 250 specialized Italian and foreign nurseryman exhibitors with an offer that ranges in all sectors of the plant world with special or newly introduced plants, old and new cultivars, equipment and furnishings.

A summer at the Opera, atmospheres, flavours and colours of Puccini's places.

A hot summer to spend in the cool hills or walking in the shadow on the walls, and in the evening ... a lot of culture! There are many occasions to take advantage of the cooler hours and get to know Lucca and its museums in a different way during summertime.

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Not only sea in Versilia. Behind the most famous beaches and waves of Italy, there is a Versilia made up of art and culture, already the scene at the beginning of the 20th century of that artistic avant-garde Art Nouveau that, with the bright atmosphere of the coast, attracted Giacomo Puccini, Pinio Nomellini, Luigi dei Servi, Galileo Chini, artists who "invented" the Versilia of "baths", Carnival, piers, the promenade with the fashionable architecture that are still the hallmark of this Mediterranean "promenade".

Art, music and cuisine are the main attractions of Lucca according to Ingrid K. Williams, who in her article "6 places in Europe offering shelter from the crowd"" recently published on www.nytimes.com (online version of the famous American newspaper) proposes Lucca as an "enchanting alternative" to Florence.

A genius tour! On June 21st on the occasion of the event Toscana Arcobaleno d'Estate, the association of tourist guides Turislucca proposes a visit to the city in the footsteps of the genius of Leonardo in the year dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci.

A guided tour inside the city walls and its genius. A leap in time and space and among the many disciplines in which the people of Lucca have been, in their own way, "brilliant".

In the year of its 200th anniversary, the Teatro del Giglio is the monument chosen as the scene of the poster for the 2019 edition of Lucca Comics and Games.

After the Guinigi Tower, the Amphitheatre, the Walls and many other monumental buildings, it is the historic city theatre that will be the scene of a kiss that will go down in history between a charming girl who could be a Puccini heroine and an android in search of humanity.