search the squares and streets of Lucca for large Christmas decorations for your greetings photos...

... on Santa's reindeer.

... through a white Christmas tree

... between two sweet guardian angels.

... in the wake of a bright comet.

... in the light of a golden star.

... in the embrace of a soft teddy bear.

... on the festive locomotive.

... with Santa Claus!

palaces and churches ‘painted’ with light

three historic and fascinating places will be repainted with projections and moving pictures

Palazzo Ducale, History has associated this area of the city with government palaces and great architecture. From the lost Giotto fortress to the palace of the Princes and Grand Dukes. This sober and elegant architecture is the backdrop to the wooden kiosks of the Piazza Napoleone market.

Piazza San Michele, a history of the city's central square. The Roman forum, the mediaeval markets, the 19th century symbols blending into the church façade.
On the white marble of the church of San Michele a starry sky will provide the backdrop for the arrival of a large comet and the artist's nativity scene under the loggia of Palazzo Pretorio.

Piazza dell'Anfiteatro a Roman amphitheatre that was later a romantic ruin, a prison and still a splendid square, the most splendid in Lucca, that we would never finish photographing to discover its corners and lights. On the elliptical walls of the square runs a singular pattern of windows and terraces.

and design installations.

Emiliana Martinelli a DOC Lucchese and international designer,

invites us under ‘A star in the Christmas forest’ in luminous in perfect festive mood. Recollection and tranquillity, silence and celebration in her compositions dedicated to the magic of Christmas and the city.
His invitation ‘Let us enter the forest, listen to its voices, its rustling, its colours, its lights and the breath of the wind that caresses us along with its mysterious hisses. Let us stop to think and answer the many questions we ask ourselves every day.This year, a star descended to illuminate a small forest and bring joy and happiness to our hearts. However, it rested on the red tree, the tallest, to remind us of the violence against women that unfortunately continues and increases.

Multimedia artist Francesco Zavattari 

will sign with his unmistakable mark the 2024 nativity scene made of large traditional statues by the artisans of the Serchio Valley, giving vitality to the traditional plaster statues that have accompanied the people of Lucca on so many journeys across the ocean in search of fortune.
Drawing from the ancient tradition of the Lucchese figurine-makers, here are characters of singular expressiveness carefully modelled and various nativity figures with intense faces, unmistakable attitudes and painstaking details that we all know: the shepherd boy with the sheep on his shoulder, the spinner sitting at her spinning wheel, the baker with her handkerchief on her head. ..and the angels in particular are clear evidence of this: painted by hand piece by piece, from a few centimetres to large, they are symbols of serenity and gentleness, they carry a message of peace, they point to a path of brotherhood.

Michel Bouquillon, the well-known Belgian architect and designer naturalised in Lucca,

proposes an unusual version of his Bark for Christmas tree. Bark recalls the bark of a tree. The fretwork recalls the knots in the wood, the concave and elongated shape suggests the structure of the trunk.
The Bark collection is inspired by the countryside around the architect's home in the hills of Lucca, a space for experimentation, where the two designers live and work in total contact with nature.