Ontdek Lucca

Palazzo Pfanner is a palace in Lucca built in 1667 for the Controni family, silk merchants, and later bought by Felix Pfanner, a brewer from Austria. Visitors walk through its 18th-century garden with statues, a fountain and a lemon house, and the frescoed main floor with period rooms and the surgical instruments of Dr Pietro Pfanner.

Villa Reale di Marlia is a villa with a large historic park near Lucca, owned by the Buonvisi family from 1517. Elisa Bonaparte bought it in 1806 and had it remodelled in Neoclassical style. The gardens include a water theatre, a lemon garden, a lake and a green theatre of clipped hedges from 1652.