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Rolling Stones - no filter

The Rolling Stones in Lucca: the music event of the year

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The Rolling Stones have announced their European tour in September and October. The 2017 tour “STONES – NO FILTER” will give the opportunity to Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Woods to do what they like the most: travelling the world and playing for their fans. This European tour is following last year’s amazing tour of South America tour that is culminated with the memorable concert in Havana (Cuba). For the only Italian show of the tour, the Rolling Stones have chosen Lucca and Tuscany, an area that has been always fascinating for the band. The venue chosen, Lucca city walls, has never been used before for a major live music event. The night will be the occasion to celebrate, also, the 20th anniversary of the Lucca Summer Festival.”

Gioco del Ponte - Pisa

The Battle on the Bridge

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via giocodelpontepisa.it: “The Battle on the Bridge comes alive with two armies dressed in elaborate and shimmering sixteenth century Spanish costumes. It is divided into five phases: the march of the troops along the Lungarni until their arrival in their respective bases, the formal opening of the battle by the Anziano Rettore, the “call to arms” by the troops, the challenges made by ambassadors on horseback, and finally, the battle itself, as the various magistrature compete under the strategic command of their respective leaders. “

Green Day flyer

Green Day at Lucca Summer Festival

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via Lucca Summer Festival: Green Day were kids from working-class backgrounds who came of age in the underground punk scene in Berkeley. Though they had already released two albums (1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and Kerplunk), the band truly announced its arrival with 1994’s Dookie, a dynamic blast of exuberant punk-pop that sold 15 million copies and earned the band its first Grammy® Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. Over the years, Green Day continued to top the charts with the subsequent studio albums Insomniac, Nimrod, and Warning, while entertaining millions of fans with their frenetic live shows. But it was their landmark 2004 album American Idiot that launched Green Day into the stratosphere…

Treasure of Valdinievole - Flyer

Treasures of Valdinievole

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The protagonists of the show are various kinds of works of art – like paintings, sculptures, pottery, photographs etc. – made by great masters and their students active in Valdinievole from the Sixteenth Century to the present day. Works of great artistic quality and historical importance, some of them realized by Pietro Annigoni, Galileo Chini, Giorgio De Chirico, Guttuso and Joan Miró, other unpublished or little known. Read all →

The Columbia Threadneedle Prize

The Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2016 @ Palazzo Strozzi

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The Strozzina area of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will be hosting The Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2016 @ Palazzo Strozzi from 1 to 24 July 2016, an exhibition designed to trigger a debate on contemporary figurative art in the work of forty-six international artists selected to mark the prestigious European award known as the Columbia Threadneedle Prize... Read all →

Giacomo Puccini

TurisLucca, as a partner of Puccini Fundation, has created a special guided walk dedicated to Puccini’s locations in Lucca. An important event to celebrate Puccini’s home museum reopening

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Puccini and Lucca Guided walks of Puccini’s homeland Music and Lucca are intrinsically linked thanks to the very many great music composers and talented musicians born in this Tuscan town. The link of Lucca with music becomes even stronger when we refer to its most illustrious and celebrated musical name : Giacomo Puccini. Here he was born and bred in music. Here in Lucca he could mould his particular cultural and artistic talent which made the birth of all his masterpieces possible. On the occasion of the re-opening of Puccini’s birthplace museum we propose an itinerary aimed at those who wish to experience intense musical emotions by offering the chance to visit many of the sites where Puccini spent his youth and where he celebrated his triumphs once he became a famous composer The tour starts by meeting with...