Via del Fosso di Lucca

Peace and quiet

We hired an apartment on the Via del Fosso and found the whole area charming from the gate at one end to the square at the other. A quiet, peaceful and restful place to stay.

Old Lucca Gates

The most interesting thing on this street are the doors to enter the old town. Otherwise, the street consists of two parts.

A quiet corner of the ‘real’ Lucca

For a taste of local Lucchese life this is a place to pass through. Nice local restaurants and a couple of souvenir shops in the vicinity. It is close to the eastern side of the city walls, and is p...

Old City Gates

This is one of the city gates that you drive through or walk through to enter old Lucca, The Medieval city. Once you wander in, you feel transported back in time.

A spirit of the city

The two-part street, going from the Piazza Varanini to Via della Rosa, is named after the moat (“fosso”) that goes adjacent to the road at the south side of the street and was once an additional prote...