A Lucca ‘Round For Some Pisa Mind

Day: 234

Towns / Cities Visited: 150

Countries Visited: 28

Steps Taken Today: 20,786

Steps Taken Around the World: 3,843,148

Today was to be one of those days. One of those days where, because my mum only had six weeks to cram in as much adventuring as possible with us, we would be attempting the always vaguely stressful task of visiting two towns in a day. This, of course, meant that we rose early and, packing our bags into the car, bid a very fond farewell to Florence. As we drove away, I couldn’t help but feel a little saddened. Florence had been one of those special places that takes up residence in your heart; the kind of place you just know you would be poorer for should you never get to see it again. Still, we couldn’t stay forever, and thus we trundled off, first to drop our bags off for safe keeping with our new Airbnb hosts, then onwards to the historic town of Lucca.

So, ‘Why Lucca?’ I hear you ask. Well, this little beauty has a couple of draw cards, aside from simply being a beautiful, old, Tuscan city, of course. Firstly, it is known as ‘the City of 100 Churches’, because, funnily enough, it has an absurd amount of churches given its relatively small size. Seriously, there is only around 88,000 residents: that’s one church for every 880 people. Secondly, it sports a rather impressive in-tact city wall, and it was here we headed first when we arrived. Now, there has been a wall here since as far back as 180 BC…