 LUCCA
Lucca is one of Italy's major heritage cities, famed even beyond the national confines, first and foremost for the 4,450 or so metres of well-preserved 15th- to 17th-century city walls that encircle the city's ancient centre. Indeed, it is one of just four Italian provincial capitals whose city walls are still intact, the others being Ferrara, Grosseto and Bergamo. The walls were converted into a pleasant esplanade back in the second half of the 19th century and are still among the best preserved in Europe, never having been used for defensive purposes in the past. |
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