Lucca and this part of Tuscany is extremely particular and much of its territory has a completely different appearance to the classic Tuscan landscape.

In the Serchio valley and Garfagnana, rather than the gentle peaceful hills of Renaissance paintings, you can find majestic mountains of marble and rochthat loom over the valley bottom along the river Serchio where roads wind their way and unexpectedly open out into sunny areas with small ancient villages, settled on green hills, that reflect in lakes with magic images.