Lunigiana: a journey to discover the unusual Tuscany

Pisa

You will have the opportunity to visit the city of the leaning tower accompanied by a local tour guide and then enjoy a lunch with typical products of the area in a historic restaurant of the city. In the afternoon you will move towards the city of Massa passing by the coast road to enjoy the view of the Versilia coast and the sea.

Address: Pisa, PI, Italy

Mass

You will stroll through the town of Massa, a town where Ligurian influences can be felt in the dialect and the rolling Tuscan hills give way to the mountainous hinterland. You will enjoy a typical aperitif in the central area to experience the Italian Lifestyle among the residents. Overnight stay.

Address: Massa, MS, Italy

Carrara

You will continue to move to Carrara to immerse yourself in an industrial and mining past that is still active today, in a city that still lives on the greatness of the past, when thanks to marble the city was filled with people from all over Italy. Precisely for this reason, you can take a guided tour of the marble quarries that make the area famous all over the world and in which many people have worked in the past who were then forced to leave the area.

You will go to the nearby Colonnata, which now has a few hundred inhabitants, to have a tasting lunch of lard, a typical product famous throughout Italy. It was an ancient quarrymen’s center and famous both for its lard and for its characteristic old town with alleys, squares and stone houses.

Address: Carrara, MS, Italy

 

Mulazzo

Transfer to Mulazzo and visit to the Museum of the Emigration of the People of Tuscany, in the Castle of Lusuolo. The museum is dedicated to the 114,000 Tuscans who live far from Italy, in Europe, the United States and Latin America, and who are gathered in 66 associations of Tuscans abroad. It hosts the exhibition People of Tuscany, a collection of photographs, letters, memories related to the events of Tuscan emigrants. The exhibition is being enriched with objects and testimonies that the emigrants themselves and their descendants are donating.

Address: Mulazzo, MS, Italy

Pontremoli

You will then move to Pontremoli, an ancient medieval village along the Via Francigena, to have a traditional dinner in a typical restaurant and overnight.

Address: Pontremoli, MS, Italy

Pontremoli

During the morning you will be able to immerse yourself in the Italian way of life, taking a walk through the village to the bar in the square where you will experience a typical breakfast. For lunch, the local ladies will teach you how to prepare the typical dish of Pontremoli, testaroli, discs of batter cut into lozenges and cooked in traditional cast iron testi, just as they did in the past!

Address: Pontremoli, MS, Italy

Bagnone

You will then begin to move towards Bagnone, a medieval village that stands on a rocky spur surrounded by lush nature and in whose historic center there were once shoemakers, apothecaries, tailors and shopkeepers. Walk and visit to the Archive of Memory Museum, MAMB, where you will understand the history of this territory that has seen many people leave and never return throughout history.

Address: Bagnone, MS, Italy

Forte dei Marmi

Resume the descent southwards and along the coast road you will make a stop in the glamorous seaside resort par excellence of Versilia, Forte dei Marmi, a destination that has always been chosen by Italian VIPs for seaside holidays. Fish dinner and overnight stay.

Address: Forte dei Marmi, LU, Italy

Forte dei Marmi

Relaxing morning by the sea and typical lunch in the area.

Address: Forte dei Marmi LU, Italy

Massaciuccoli

Finally, you can visit the Lipu Oasis of Massaciuccoli, a nature trail within the Chiarone Nature Reserve consisting of a wooden walkway on stilts and a flat path inside a humid lowland forest from which you will arrive at the characteristic “butterfly garden”. A pleasant walk to observe the flora and fauna typical of the marshes and woods.

Address: Massaciuccoli, LU, Italy

Return to Pisa and end of services.