The medieval and Renaissance physiognomy of Lucca is contained in its wide sixteenth-century boundaries, characterizing element of this beautiful city of Tuscany, posts to the left of the river Serchio. The surrounded building is interrupted by 11 different ramparts among them for form and dimension. Is the tower of the Bastard that the rampart St. Martin they preserve the native sixteenth-century structure.Particularly, inside the second, freely accessible to the public, is possible to observe in detail these imposing constructions and the disposition of the ancient gunboats. The rampart of St. Paolino, completely restored and open to the public offers an unusual and winning proposal of recovery and use of this ample underground space instead to the visitor. Of the three native doors of the city, free commune already in the XIIcentury, St. Pietro brings, the most ancient (1565 -1566), it was the only one through which the strangers transited. Although partially modified in the centuries, it still maintains, substantially unchanged, the elegant aspect of the external prospectus.
Distance from this stupendous city 50 km.