Province of Lucca

Coordinates: 43°51′N 10°31′E / 43.850°N 10.517°E / 43.850; 10.517
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Province of Lucca
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The province of Lucca (Italian: provincia di Lucca) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Lucca.

It has an area of 1,773 square kilometres (685 sq mi) and a population of about 390,000. The province contains 33

comuni (sg.: comune).[2]

Geography

Situated in northwestern coastal Italy, within Tuscany, Lucca borders the

Lido di Camaiore, Pietrasanta and Forte dei Marmi. Garfagnana is known for its wooded hills and olive trees.[4]

Lago di Massaciuccoli is a lake with a surface area of 6.9 square kilometres (2.7 sq mi), located mainly in the municipality of Massarosa and partly in Torre del Lago, a civil parish of Viareggio
. The lake was known in ancient times as the Fossis Papirianis, a name used in the Tabula Peutingeriana. The composer Giacomo Puccini lived nearby and frequently hunted around the lake; today the Puccini Festival is held there annually in celebration.[5] The springs of
Fallopius
once claimed that the springs cured his own deafness.

Main sights

Façade and bell tower of Lucca Cathedral

Situated along the

Mansi Palace and the 14th-century Church of San Francesco, which contains the tomb of the Lucchese poet Giovanni Guidiccioni.[8]

The Casa Guinigi and the Guinigi Tower of Lucca is a fine example of remaining medieval architecture in the province; construction began in 1384 to accommodate the wealthy Guinigi family. Paolo Guinigi was a ruler of the town a little later in the early 15th century. 44.25 metres (145.2 ft) high, it was built with sandstone and brick from Matraia and Verrucano from the Monti Pisani. Only one of the original towers remains, and loggia and the porch on the ground floor of it have been shut off.

Also of note is an Aqueduct of Nottolini consisting of 459 arches, constructed between 1823 and 1832.[9]

Government

List of presidents of the province of Lucca

  President Term start Term end Party
Giuseppe Bicocchi 1975 1985 Christian Democracy
Piero Leonardo Andreucci 1985 1990 Christian Democracy
Franco Antonio Fanucchi 1990 1992[10] Christian Democracy
Piero Baccelli 1992 1992[10] Christian Democracy
Pier Giorgio Licheri 1993 1994 Christian Democracy
Enrico Grabau 1994 1997 National Alliance
Andrea Tagliasacchi 1997 2001 Democratic Party of the Left
Democrats of the Left
2001 2006
Stefano Baccelli 2006 2011 Democrats of the Left
Democratic Party
2011 2015
Luca Menesini 2015 Incumbent Democratic Party

References

  1. ^ Regions and Cities > Regional Statistics > Regional Economy > Regional Gross Domestic Product (Small regions TL3), OECD.Stats. Accessed on 16 November 2018.
  2. ^ Official website (in Italian)
  3. ^ "Territorio" (in Italian). Provincia.lucca.it. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Lucca". Italia.it. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  5. ISBN 978-0-470-74988-3
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  6. ^ "Associazione Vicaria Val di Lima". Contadolucchese.it. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  7. ^ Starke, Mariana (1837). Travels in Europe for the Use of Travellers on the Continent Including the Island of Sicily, where the Author Had Never Been Till the Year 1834 by Mariana Starke. John Murray. p. 107.
  8. ISBN 978-88-7989-909-3
    .
  9. ^ Herbermann, Charles George; Pace, Edward Aloysius (1950). The Catholic Encyclopedia: Laprade-Mass. Appleton. p. 405.
  10. ^ a b Resigned.

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