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| Lucca Walled City |
Last year we heard both Cris and Sabrina and the Swedish
couple mention going to Lucca. The Swedish couple were going there to get
married and we had been invited but it was the same day we were to fly home so
we didn’t attend.
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| Aqueduct |
This year it was on the list. So we are just finishing up
our 2nd night here and while we have seen more spectacular walled
cities, or more intimate settings, Lucca impressed us as a clean tourist centre
that has much history to offer. All the food offerings we had while there were
great, our accommodation, right outside the old walled city is excellent, and
we even saw some things many tourists don’t know about.
Sandra read in someone’s blog about an aqueduct in Lucca,
but it is not in any literature, and the blog she had read gave very poor
partial directions, likely from someone’s faded memory. So we went to a tourist
centre and asked how to get to it, and laughed after at the directions. The fellow
told us to take the stairs underground from the train station to the other side
turn left in the direction of a fountain, then at the fountain turn right
towards an Obelisk and the aqueduct was close to it.
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| Obelisk |
So we get to the train station, and since there are 3 tracks
and 2 sides to each track there will be underground walkways that allow access
to the tracks. Of course here you can use the underground walkway to cross
under the train station to go home as well. No problem we get to the other
side; incidentally the walkway is off to the left side of the train station.
Once there we turn left in the direction of the fountain,
but see no fountain. We walk a ways and then I see the Obelisk surrounded by
snow fence as it is boarded up. We walk to the Obelisk and find the aqueduct actually
runs into the Obelisk that really was the centrifuge for the water to run down
and then go underground. When we walked back we wondered where the fountain was.
It was at that point we saw this. Not what we would call a “ fountain”.
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| A Luccan Fountain to turn at |
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| A Real Luccan Fountain |
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| Freakie Girl |
The evening is a wonderful time to walk the top of the Walled City. There are many people out there walking, running, and bicycling. Sandra and I walk by this girl who was somewhat hiding and was texting someone. I said to Sandra, gee that kid was freakie, standing with a hoodie up, texting.
And she said yeah I noticed her too. Then I looked closer.
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| Still not responding |
And then closer again.
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| Italian Modern Art |
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