The Puccini cyclo-pedestrian route runs largely along the banks of the Serchio river. You can reach Ponte a Moriano by train + bike on the historic Lucca - Aulla line, and go downstream following the current, but also the history of the Maestro.

We're right on the border between Piana di Lucca and the Serchio Valley, where the ancestral home in Pescaglia now houses a museum with many family heirlooms, and where good music is played from time to time.

In this first stretch, we are accompanied, on the left, by pre-Apennine relief, on the right, by landscapes of vineyards, olive groves and parts of the original oak forest of the nearby Moriano hills, one of the most beautiful and perhaps least known areas of the Piana di Lucca.

After about eight kilometers, we reach Ponte San Quirico, which is the closest point to the town of Lucca. You can tell by the large bridge (but be careful crossing it, it's very busy) and the structures that surround it. A small inhabited village, the wrought-iron pavilions of the Foro Boario host a lively farmers' market on Wednesdays and Saturdays, the Petroni terrace overlooking the river.