"Deredia in Lucca. The cosmic energy in the sculptures of Jiménez Deredia" From 28 April to 10 September 2018 Lucca will become an open-air exhibition, hosting the monumental works of the artist Jiménez Deredia in the main squares of the historic center. The circular and oval shapes present in the artist's works accompany the spectator in a fluid and harmonious path, inserted within the urban fabric. Jiménez Deredia presents a symbolic-transmutative sculpture of an organic character, which describes cosmic participation.

The eleventh edition of VerdeMura will open next Friday, 6 April, an exhibition of gardening and outdoor living that brings to Lucca over 230 exhibitors from all over Italy and a large audience of visitors interested in plants, flowers, and nice to inaugurate the beautiful season in one of the most fascinating Italian cities and open to the world of greenery and the garden.

New location of the event, in the section of urban walls between Baluardo Santa Croce and Baluardo San Donato:

Lucca is reconfirmed "city of music" paying particular attention to the musical productions of that eighteenth century music that, as is known, had in the city of Lucca one of its world capitals. Once again, the specific contribution from Lucca will stand alongside the greatest European composers of the time, from Bach to Haydn and from Händel to Mozart.

The 2018 edition of the festival includes over 40 events between January and December dedicated to Lucca's eighteenth-century music and distributed in various musical programs

A public meeting on the strategic choices in view of the creation of a homogeneous tourist offer in Tuscany.
After the events held in Fucecchio, Pontremoli and Siena, o Friday January 19, “La nostra Francigena. Territori protagonisti del tempo delle scelte” (Territories as protagonists of the time of choices) will also take place in Lucca, at Palazzo Ducale.

Not only the Middle Ages and Renaissance in the walled city. Art is a habit that has been preserved to this day. In 1977, the Lucchese Association of Art Figurative gave to the Municipality of Lucca 140 works of painting, sculpture and graphics designed for the constitution of a permanent Museum of Modern Art that valorizes the important artistic heritage; since then the collection has been enriched with numerous private donations, which have so far been dispersed in various communal offices or stored in stores that are not accessible to the public.

Year 51: Lucca Comics and Games can be Heroes ... at least for 5 days!

The second half century of the Festival opens with the "manifesto" of the values ​​shared with the audience. New guests announced in the Activision Square, (Santa Maria Square). It will be dedicated to the Heroes of paper, pixel, celluloid, but above all in flesh and bone heroes who travel to create each year the largest community event in Europe.

Santiago de Compostela, Via Francigena, Sant'Olav Street. The Council of Europe's Itineraries also include real paths along which our History has been built and that it is possible to walk through the stairs for the night as they were pilgrims, knights and merchants in the past.

On foot, by bicycle, on horseback or on the back of a donkey like Robert Louis Stevenson who in 1878 left Monastier-sur-Gazeille (Upper Loire) with Modestine donkey and in 12 days of travel and many adventures came to Saint-Jean -du-Gard.

The opportunities that the Forum and the Itinerary Program offer to our territory

From 27 to 29 September 2017 Lucca will host the annual Forum of Cultural Itineraries of the Council of Europe, a program that our territory, for history and heritage, is linked from different points of view.