Lucca

Lucca

Lucca (listen is a city of 88 776 inhabitants in the north of Tuscany, capital of the province of the same name, whose metropolitan area is the main center of the Plain of Lucca.

Famous for its historical monuments, it is one of the few capitals to preserve the historic center, rich in ancient structures from various eras, completely surrounded by a sixteenth-century wall that is overall intact and almost unchanged over the centuries. It is a notable city of art in Italy. Officially of Roman origins, but probably built over earlier settlements, Lucca, a city of merchants and weavers, maintained its autonomy as an independent state for several centuries until 1799 when the ancient Republic was supplanted, following the French conquest by Napoleonic troops. , giving life to the Principality of Lucca and subsequently to the Bourbon Duchy of Lucca.