About Lucca-Immobiliare Veronica Centro Real Estate

Lucca is a delightful collection of ancient origins, located in the northwestern part of Tuscany, near the Versilia beaches and just 60 km from Florence. From Lucca is possible to reach Florence, Viareggio and Forte dei Marmi, Torre del Lago, Pisa, Montecatini Terme, the Pinocchio Park, Villa Garzoni and the Pistoia zoo.

The "Lucchesia", the city surrounding area, boasts a wealth of natural considerable value from the banks of the Serchio the peaks of the Alps and the Apuane, Pisani mountains, the beautiful mountainous region of Valle del Serchio, medieval town of Barga and the spa baths of Bagni di Lucca and the Versilia sea with Viareggio and Forte dei Marmi.

Lucca is one of the few cities in the world to have the acient urban walls still intact, and the walls of Lucca are undoubtedly, one of the most fascinating and evocative of its millenary history. A bastion walls, built in the 500's and still entirely feasible on foot or by bicycle, cover the entire city, making a circular route of about 4 km. The green spaces are one of the characteristics of Lucca: many gardens and courtyards of the old houses; long lines of trees travel section of the interior walls adorned by imposing entrance doors.

The doors were originally three, all with drawbridges: S. Pietro, S.Maria, and S. Donato. All the walls were and are still protected by a large ditch deep about 35 meters.

Lucca is an aristocratic city, soberly elegant, which is bursting with beautiful and healthy food charm, wheting healthy delights in food shops where you can find genuine products. There are breads and cheeses, "soppressate", ham, salami and honey. The old town, is marked from the elegant shopping street called Fillungo, lavish palaces, gardens, ancient medieval towers, featured shops and an incredible number of churches, most of them in Romanesque style.
Among the most important monuments: Torre Guinigi, the San Martino Cathedral, the San Frediano Basilica, the fifteenth Tomb of Ilaria del Carretto, the famous circular ancient Roman amphitheater square , Napoleone square, and the sacral of San Michele.

LUCCA AND ITS TYPICAL PRODUCTS
Typical Specialties are the farro soup, Colonnata lard and the buccellato, a delicious sweet that the Lucchese furnaces remove from ovens since immutable centuries. The city surrounding hills, produce a good red wine, especially in the Monte Carlo area, and olive oil is renowned throughout the world.
But beyond that, the lucchesia offer the quercetane olives that have an absolute peculiarity of the dual attitude as it may be pressed but can be also tasted brined.

The origins of the Villa Reale in Marlia are very ancient, entirely rebuilt in the seventeenth century with gardens and all'adjacent Palazzina dell'Orologio. It was the home of the Dukes of Tuscia, then passed to the Avvocati family, and then to Buonvisi. In 1651 the Orsetti family restructured it. In 1811 Elisa Baciocchi changed the inland appearance renovating with also a new distribution of rooms. The beautiful garden in front of the villa, was considerably expanded, preserving the 700's sides of considerable value: the splendid lemons garden, the camellias avenue, scenic bathtub with water theater behind the villa, the unique vegetables theater.

With the fall of Napoleon, the house passed to the Bourbons, then to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and after the unification of the Italy Kingdom, Vittorio Emanuele II, who gave it to the Prince Charles of Savoy; at his death went to the his son. Subsequently, the house passed to a group of local buyers, and shortly after to the Roman aristocracy family, of Pecci - Blunt.

VILLA MANSI
Villa Mansi, is one of the most scenic of the entire territory of Lucca, is located is in the area of Segromigno in Monte, about 10 km east from Lucca, in the town of Capannori. It is one of the best country palaces, rappresenting the Republic of Lucca culture and society.

VILLA BERNARDINI
Villa Bernardini was built between 1600 and 1615 the aristocratic Bernardino Bernardini and is a typical example of architecture late-reinassance. The structure, which is very simple, is developed on two floors with basement and attic. Inside, many rooms are furnished with original furniture of various eras, creating a charming. On the fron-tale the villa, the garden of mold nineteenth presents ancient plants, including two sequoias of middel 1800's. The lemon trees and has a Empire style pool made of Carrara marble. Behind the house, the famous "Verzura theater ", which dates back to the 1700's second half, is built on three floors with a semicircle curtain.

Villa Grabau was built in 1500's on the ashes of a medieval village, about 200 meters from the Villa Reale and represents an example of neoclassical architecture. Initially belonged to the Diodati, an important family of lucchese merchants, then was property of the Orsetti, and the Citadel Marquis. In 1868 it passed to the Hamburg Grabau family, whose heirs still live in the villa.

Villa Oliva was built around 1500, by Lodovico Buonvisi and was designed by Matteo Civitali. In 1600 Cardinal Francesco Buonvisi, organized there an important consistory, in the presence of Pope Alexander VII Chigi Della Rovere. In early 1800 the house passed to the Montecatini's, then Poniatowski, theh Paolozzi and was finally bought by the Oliva family that proceeded to the restructuring of the building and the park, that is more than five hectares, rich of rare plants.

The Villa Torrigiani, an excellent example of Baroque architecture in Tuscany, was built in the second half of 1500 by Buonvisi, an important family that lived there until the first half of 1600, when it was purchased by the Marquis Nicolao Santini, Ambassador of the Republic of Lucca, that expanded and transformed completely. The villa became richer and was surrounded by stunning gardens with large tanks. Superb is the entrance gate to the garden, situated at the end of an avenue of seven hundred meters, flanked by two rows of tall cypress.

Located at the center of one of the most fascinating parts of the Natural Park of the Apuan Alps, characterized by deep valleys, big rock walls, large areas erosion shaped limestone and slender peaks which dominate vast landscapes, Wind Cave is one of the most important natural treasures of all Garfagnana. The interior of the cave is equipped with comfortable paths permitting to admire all the wonders from lives stalactites and stalagmites and the brilliant polychrome castings under of alabaster drapes, crystal encrusted lakes, the underground rivers and the bizarre erosion forms.

A "donkey back" construction with its asymmetric arches over and above the Serchio River, close to Borgo a Mozzano. Called "the devil bridge" due to an ancient legend and "the Magdalene bridge " for a small temple that preserves the statue of the saint; the bridge was built, it seems, by the Matilde Countess.