We got up earlier today in order to make sure that we was
able to be out by 9 or around than. Lucca is only a half day tour but it was
better than not doing anything and staying in the room.
Anyways, it rained the whole day. My feet were soaked by the
time we got to the train station which isn’t long at all. It also didn’t help
that we didn’t really have an umbrella either. Logan’s feet weren’t really
soaked until half way through us touring around. Also due to the rain, we
weren’t able to take many pictures. It was kind of depressing because there
were a lot of places that I would have loved to take a picture of.
Anyways, when we got to Lucca we were on the outside of the
old city walls so we had to walk for a little bit to get to the old city where
there was a lot of things to see. We didn’t get to see many of the cool things
but we got to some pretty cool ones. The wall themselves are pretty cool as
well. As we walked into the gate (which is called Saint Maria’s Gate) we saw
this fountain that was pretty. After
that we walked down a street and arrived in one of the plazas. It was called “Plazza
Napoleone”. There was this statue of a woman (which was clothed gratefully).
The details on this statue were kind of funny. There were turtles in the
pillars around the statue. Here is a picture below:
We then saw one of the cathedrals called “St. Michael
Church” and the Square around it. There was a few museums in this area but they
all cost money and we was really trying on not spending a whole lot of money. We
did take a few pictures of the outside of this church. It was kind of pretty.
Another thing that we went and saw was called the Tower of
Guinigi or Plazzo Guinigi. This tower is kind of like the Tower of Pisa but
instead of having bells at the top, there were oak trees. I am not sure why
they did trees instead of bells but it sure was pretty. We climbed the 130
stairs to the top (which by the way, I was holding onto the handrail with my
dear life) and took some pictures of the view of Lucca. It was breathe-taking! I
am hoping to make a panoramic picture with most of the pictures that I took up
there. I also caught a picture of Logan looking out across the town. Logan and
I both agree this was our favorite thing in Lucca to visit.
We visited more places than decided to eat lunch before it
got too late. Logan really wanted pizza so we went to a pizza place. We both
ordered a calzone (which means folded pizza) and this is what we got:
We both looked at each other and couldn’t believe how big
they were. Logan was able to finish his off (of course) and I was only able to
eat about a quarter of what there was. Logan later finished mine off but I
still can’t believe that they are that big. And another weird detail is that
they put the sauce on the top of the calzone too. We than headed out and
visited more place and grabbed more gelato (I don’t think I will get enough of
the ice cream here!). By this time I was just miserable and wanted to head back
to the hotel because my feet started going raw. So we than decided to go back
to the hotel for the night.
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