Routes from Versilia

Routes from Versilia
Lucca

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Geography: altitude m. 19 s.l.m. communal surface kmq 185,5. Lucca is situated on the left of the Serchio river. Placed side by side to the Alps Apuane and to the Pisano mount, the city is encircled from the fortifications walls cinquecentesche. The better periods in order to visit this city are the late summer and the first autumn when the city festivities put to fire the more typical aspects of the from Tuscany landscape.
Monuments: Lucca is the only European city that maintains to the town-walls building around the city still integral. It walls constructed between 1504 and the 1645 are remained always equal. Roman amphitheater, buried of 3 meters, has been constructed in the I and II secodo d.C.. Mansi palace laughed them to XVII the century, has furnishings of the XVIII. S. door Peter has been reconstructed in 1556. Pretorio palace begun in 1492, has been widened in the past century and has a clock of century XVII on the facade. Palace constructed Ducale nel 1578 has the courtyard dell' Ammannati. Museums: _ library Capitolare Feliniana (v. of the Archbishopric). National Pinacoteca (via Rates) Museo the Work of the Dome
(p.za Saint Martino). Natural History museum of the Machiavelli Grammar school (via: Asilli). Center Studies Ragghianti (p.za S. Micheletto). Botanical garden (v. of the Botanical Garden
Tourist information: Every Ten Ricompare Years A Country (Careggine); the country Factories of Careggine more does not exist from when it has been constructed the dam on the Serchio, but every 10 years when the dam comes emptied for maintenance jobs, the country to ricompare. Launch of the Cheese (Gallicano): this is one sport practiced for the campaign roads: who wins succeeds launch the cheese shape more far away. Gastronomia: Zuppa to the frantoiana, lamb with the olives, necci with annealed, ribboned macaroni, rosticciana of pig, tortellos, biroldo, barbottino.
Fabbriche di Carreggine	top page
The fruibibile show to the Lago of Vagli, than once every 10 years it comes emptied. The submergeeed country of Fabbriche di Carreggine can be admired. A lunar panorama, created from the country that remains under the water for of the years. In the occasion organized excursions come. Fabbriche di Carreggine. The submergeed country:
A Tuscany submergeeed that it can be admired of I shave and for short periods exists: it is that one that emerges from waters of the lago of Winnows every time that is emptied for the periodic maintenances. The history begins in 1946 when, in they of the Edron goes, the waters has covered the ancient country of Factories of Careggine and she is concluded in 1953, when also the houses of the most recent takeover than Piari come submergeeed and the inhabitants transferred in the new rooms of Winnow
The ancient medieval village of Factories ago to live again intense emotions to every new appointment, succeeding to be involved also the tourists. This has been taken place in 1958, 1974, in 1983 and 1994, while the next appointment is previewed beyond 2000. Million cubic meters of water, withholdings for hydroelectric uses, reservoir water for various cities and emergency for the activities of civil protection, are the caretakers of one civilization, a world peasant and craftsman by now disapparance.
These traditions, than the lake protect in a perennial spell, come shown to the par of the more precious treasures, single in the great occasions. When the lago is emptied, with to the tourists, the students and the press, the inhabitants of the valley return also in order to observe the Romanesque church of S. Teodoro, its bell tower, the way arched Vandelli and the bridge to three that it crosses the Edron torrent. Getting here: Treno: Dalla stazione di Lucca si prende il treno Lucca-Aulla e ci si ferma alla stazione di Poggio-Vagli-Careggine. Like arriving: Car: From Lucca the S.S.12 of the Abetone is feed and of the Brennero and to the height of the country of Fornoli, common of Baths of Lucca, provincial neo-road 445 of the Garfagnana is taken. It arrives to you to Hill, common of Camporgiano, it is turned for goes it them of the Edron and after little kilometers the poderosa dam is caught a glimpse of Winnows. Train: From the station of Lucca one takes to the firm Lucca-Aulla train and us to the station of Poggio-Vagli-Careggine. Telephone number: Municipality di Vagli di Sotto 0583 664343 Montana community of Garfagnana 0583 644911 Restaurant "Le Alpi" Vagli di Sotto 0583 664057 Restaurant "La buca dei gracchi" Campocatino 0583 664103

Routes from Versilia Lucca

Routes from Versilia
Lucca