We invite you to join us in a marvelous trip to Lucca. Our itinerary includes: San Michele Piazza and Church, Duomo, Medieval streets, Amphitheater and San Frediano Basilic.

• Throughout the tour, you will be guided by an expert in History or Art history, who will help you to discover Tuscany. You can choose the language you prefer...we have 14 different languages available!
• You can choose the departure point: you can meet you guide in a fixed point or, if you prefer, he can pick you up in your hotel!
• If you are a small party, then this is the tour for you...you own guide all over Tuscany!
• Admission to museums indicated is included.
• Prices without car: (for group)
  • 1 up to 10 persons : € 200 + € 1,55 for each person
  • 11 up to 20 persons : € 170 + € 1,55 for each person
  • over 20 persons : € 170 + € 1,55 for each person + € 2,75 for each added person
• Prices with car:
  • 1 up to 3 persons : € 200 + € 310 + € 1,55 for each person
  • 4 up to 8 persons : € 200 + € 330 + € 1,55 for each person
  • 9 up to 16 persons : € 200 (up to 10 persons) or € 170 (from 11 to 16 persons) + € 440 + € 1,55 for each person
  • 17 up to 24 persons : € 170 (up to 20 persons) + € 2,75 for each added person + € 480 + € 1,55 for each person
  • 25 up to 35 persons : € 170 (up to 20 persons) + € 2,75 for each added person + € 520 + € 1,55 for each person
  • 36 up to 54 : € 170 (up to 20 persons) + € 2,75 for each added person + € 580 + € 1,55 for each person

ITINERARY

Lucca is the capital of the province of the same name in northwestern Tuscany. With approximately 85,000 inhabitants, Lucca is situated in a broad alluvial plain, 19 meters above sea level, near the Serchio River, between the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, the Tyrrhenian Coast and the Pisan hills. It is an important city for art and traditional culture, presenting a vital historic center of extraordinary value, which has conserved almost intact the thick urban network of houses, towers, medieval churches, Renaissance palaces and 19th-century piazzas. Lucca today is a flowering commercial and industrial center and an important area for the paper, chemical, metal mechanic, textile and agricultural (olive and wine) industries.

Lucca, visited by the Ligurians and the Etruscans, became a colony in 180 A.D., and then a flowering Roman town (89 A.D.) in the 2nd to 8th centuries. It was the capital of the Lungobard Duchy of Tuscia. The conversion of the Lungobards to Catholicism manifested itself in the construction of many churches, from late Romanesque times up to the present. Lucca is called, in fact, “the city of 100 churches.” It became a free commune in 1162. In the 13th to the 14th centuries, it reached its period of maximum splendor, thanks to the imperial privilege of stamping money, to its intense mercantile and banking activity, and above all to processing and trading of the precious silk that was exported to markets all over Europe.

The battles with neighboring Pisa and Florence for the control of transportation routes in the 12th to 15th centuries more than once necessitated the rebuilding of the walls. From the 16th century on, the city was a free oligarchic republic. In 1805, Napoleon made Lucca a principality, granting authority to his sister Elisa Bonaparte in Baciocchi. Elisa governed up to 1814, carrying out grandiose public works and making many radical modifications to the city’s appearance. After the Restoration, Maria Luisa di Borbone, who with her son Carlo Ludovico was distinguished for having built a new aqueduct, renewed the reforming criteria of the Baciocchi. In 1847, the city became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and then in 1860 it joined the Kingdom of Italy.