Tuscany Tour: Pisa & Lucca

Visit two famous towns of Tuscany and have a stop for a lunch and wine tasting in cheeses heritage of the region!

Start your Tuscany tour from Lucca and then drive to Pisa. Ones you enter Lucca's massive walls, you discover a welter of little streets clogged by bicycles, lacelike church facades, an ancient tower on which a tree grows, and a strange, hidden oval piazza that was once amphitheatre. To see all this from above, take a pleasant walk along the top of the city wals. A free commune from the 12th c, Lucca's wealth and importance grew to the mid 14th c as a result of the manufacture and trade of silk. From 1550 the city turned to agriculture, a shift that saw the return to an interest in architecture. Various contry villas were buit, a wall was constructed around the city centre, and most of the houses were rebuilt or renovated.

The main attractions to see:

• The historic center

• San Michele in Foro

• Giacomo Puccini

• Via Fillungo

• San Frediano

• Piazza dell'Anfiteatro

• Piazza San Pietro

• San Pietro Somaldi

• The city walls & Duomo

Pisa is a quiet provincial university city, which is famous for its artistic and architectural treasures. The city has preserved most of the contour of the ancient walls and a unique historical atmosphere. Pisa is distinguished above all by the remarkable group of buildings on the Piazza del Duomo, which is also called the Square of Miracles.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is the famous leaning tower, the main symbol of Pisa. It was designed as a cathedral bell tower. It was built for almost two centuries from the 12th century.

The main attractions to see:

• Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta

• Baptistery

• Piazza Garibaldi

• The Palace of the Archbishops

• Church of San Nicola

• San Piero a Grado - Romanesque basilica of the 10th century

• Palazzo dei Cavalieri

• Santa Maria della Spina is a church on the left bank of the Arno River