Lucca, Italy
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Tuesday was another side trip - just over an hour and a quarter by train to the medieval - then renaissance - walled city of Lucca, and with the station 5 minutes away, an easy trip - although our train got us into Lucca 40 minutes late.
We explored the rather astonishing churches of this interesting city which escaped the bombs of WW 2 and so remains intact. The cathedral houses the "Volta Santa" which featured in a book I just read and so I was keen to s...