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A walled city in Tuscany clings to its ancient menuLUCCA, Italy : With its pink-hued medieval churches, tree-lined city walls and a famously excellent regional cuisine, Lucca seems the perfect Tuscan city. But that charm is precisely what has made it the latest battleground in a tug of war between the romantic Italy of the popular imagination ...
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To shelter its cuisine, Italian city bans foreign flavorsUntil recently, Italians overwhelmingly ate Italian food, but a decade or more of immigration has seen a surge of new foreign food eateries. Now, one city has declared that enough is enough. The walled, medieval bastion of Lucca, in the heart of Tuscany, wants no more of the kebab shops and ...
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ANSA.it - News in English - Arts guide: exhibits in Italy(ANSA) - Rome, January 30 - The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy's top art exhibitions: ASCOLI - Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea: 'Sedendo e Mirando', 130 landscapes by famed cartoonist Tullio Pericoli; March 21-September 13. BOLOGNA - Museo d'Arte Moderna (MAMBO): More than 100 ...
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Luigi Boccherini - WikipediaBoccherini was born in Lucca, Italy, in a musical family. At a young age his father, a cellist and double bass player, sent Luigi to study in Rome. In 1757 he went to Vienna with his son where the two of them were employed by the court as musicians in the Burgtheater. In 1761 Boccherini went to ...
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Lucca - WikipediaLucca is a city in Tuscany, northern central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plain near (but not on) the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca. Among other reasons, it is famous for its intact Renaissance-era city walls (although the city has expanded ...
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Giacomo Puccini - Listen to Classical MusicDescended from a family of musicians, Puccini was the most important Italian opera composer in the generation after Verdi. He was born and educated in Lucca, later studying under Ponchielli at the Milan Conservatory. He began his career as a composer of opera with Le Villi, on the story familiar ...
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