Capannori entdecken

Piazza dell'Anfiteatro is an oval square in the north-east of Lucca's old town. The ring of houses around it follows the outline of the Roman amphitheatre, whose remains lie about 3 m below today's pavement. The architect Lorenzo Nottolini cleared the interior in 1830 to create a market square; four gateways lead in, and cafés line the curve.

The Guinigi Tower is a 45 m brick tower in Lucca, built in the second half of the 14th century by the Guinigi, a family of merchants and bankers. Holm oaks grow in a small garden on its top, reached by 230 steps, from where visitors look over the old town. The family's descendants gave it to the city in 1968.

The Torre delle Ore is a medieval tower on Via Fillungo in Lucca, about 50 metres tall, which has carried the city's public clock since 1390. A wooden staircase of 207 steps climbs past the hand-wound clock mechanism of 1754 to the bell chamber, whose large arched windows look out over the roofs of the old town.