Discover Lucca from the Tahiti hotel in Viareggio

Lucca is one of the main cities of art in Italy. It is also famous outside the national borders above all for its intact 15th-17th century city walls, which has a perimeter of approximately 4,223 m around the historic city centre. Moreover, Lucca is one of the 4 Italian provincial capitals to have an intact Renaissance city wall, together with Ferrara, Grosseto and Bergamo. 

The circle of city walls of Lucca became a promenade from the second half of nineteenth Century. The promenade is still today one of the best preserved in Europe, as it was never used in past centuries for defensive purposes (It should be noted that until early 1990s. The walls were used - thanks to the considerable size of the roadway - as a real ring road for traffic, even heavy traffic, around the city, the only example in the world of a wall of this size and with this use).