Day Seven: Lucca to somewhere in northern Italy

At around nine in the morning, when the little electric carts are still trundling around the streets, cleaning and collecting rubbish, I go into Lucca to visit the church of San Frediano. The saint is said to have brought Christianity to Lucca in, I think, the sixth century from his native Ireland, then the “land … Continue reading Day Seven: Lucca to somewhere in northern Italy