Pisa & Lucca
Pisa and Lucca: the back story
The back story
About Pisa and Lucca: the back story
Pisa and Lucca are twenty minutes apart by train and very different: Pisa with its white marble square and university, Lucca a calm walled city of churches and towers.
Pisa
Book a timed ticket for the tower on opapisa.it, then see the cathedral, the Baptistery and the Camposanto.
Lucca
Walk or cycle the walls, find the oval Piazza dell’Anfiteatro and visit Puccini’s birthplace.
Pisa’s Piazza del Duomo has been on UNESCO’s World Heritage List since 1987.
Around
The Villa Reale di Marlia and Butterfly, a starred restaurant, are just north of Lucca; Grotta Giusti and Montecatini are spa towns towards Florence.
Our advice: stay in Lucca and visit Pisa early, before the coaches.
Why it's on our list
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