LUCCA

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.

Aqueduct

This year it was on the list. So we are just finishing up our 2^nd 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.

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”.

A Luccan Fountain to turn at

A Real Luccan Fountain

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.

Still not responding

And then closer again.

Italian Modern Art