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A Brief History of Lucca
A Brief History of Lucca
Emperor Federico Barbarossa kicked off what was to be a heady accumulation of medieval wealth from the wool, silk and banking trades when he made Lucca a free comune in the 12th century. It was this wealth that produced the beautiful Duomo. A later boom under the 14th-century signorie, first under Uguccione della Faggiuola and then Castruccio Castracani degli Antelminelli, led to a happy four years of Republic rule before it was eventually toppled by the arrival of the French in the 17th century. The Bourbons replaced the government of Felice and Elisa Baciocchi (Napoleon’s sister), and created one of Lucca’s most popular attractions when they transformed the city walls into the lovely tree-lined public walkway you see today.
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