Sunken and sheltered behind its magnificently preserved Renaissance walls, Lucca is a mystery right up until the moment you enter it--like Paradise--by way of St. Peter's Gate Once inside you'll find widing, canyon-like corridors dotted with palazzi, medieval towers and store-fronts, amphitheatres and hidden churches brillantly decorated with Romanesque facades, all confined within the city walls, along the op of which runs a tree-lined promenade The city lies at the heart of one of Italy's richest agricultural regions and has prospered since Roman times when it acquired great political significance and commerical power tans to the wool and silk trade and the command of its strategic position at the crossroads of the Empire's communications with its norther reaches. Today it is ranked amongst the wealthest in Tuscany. We discovered the riches of Lucca on bicycles!!!!
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