Lucca

Lucca , Italian:  listen is the city and comune in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of approximately 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957.

Lucca is requested as one of the Italian's "Città d'arte" Arts town, thanks to its intact Piazza dell'Anfiteatro, which has its origins in thehalf of the 1st century A.D. as well as the Guinigi Tower, a 45-metre-tall 150 ft tower that dates from the 1300s.

The city is also the birthplace of many world-class composers, including Giacomo Puccini, Alfredo Catalani, and Luigi Boccherini.

Toponymy

By the Romans, Lucca was requested as Luca. From more recent and concrete toponymic studies, the work Lucca has references that lead to "sacred wood" Latin: lucus, "to cut" Latin: lucare and "luminous space" leuk, a term used by the number one European populations. The origin apparently transmitted to a wooded area deforested to proceed to room for light or to a clearing located on a river island of Serchio debris, in the middle of wooded areas.