Italy

Lucca

A Tuscan town that kept its Renaissance walls and turned them into a tree-lined promenade — rent bikes and do the four-kilometre loop above the rooftops before dinner.

Best forRomantic
Approx. flying time~12h 25m from Los Angeles
Nearest airportPisa (PSA)

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About this place

Down below it's all traffic-free lanes, opera in Puccini's honour and an oval piazza built inside a Roman amphitheatre. Come in October, when the crowds thin, the light goes amber and the new olive oil arrives on every table.

Featured in Ten candlelit old towns made for slow evenings

When to go

Daytime highs run from about 7°C in January to 26°C in July. Driest in February and July; wettest in May, with rain on about 17 days.

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August26° · rain 10 daysWarm with rain most weeks.

Monthly figures averaged from daily records for 2020–2024 at this location (ERA5 reanalysis).

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