16th-century Villa Bottini, owned by the municipality, stands in the centre of Lucca, outside porta San Gervasio. Commissioned by Bernardino Buonvisi, ownership passed to Elisa Bacciocchi in the early 1800s and later to…
Easily visible in today’s residential centre, the Amphitheatre of ancient Larinum (Larino) is an important archaeological monument. The funds for its construction were left to the city by an aristocrat, Capito, at the…
The Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, known as Vittoriano, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi, was built to honour the first King of Italy. Work began on the monument with its imposing terraces in 1885 and finished in 1911…