Paola Moschini - Qualified and smiley Lucca Tour Guide

05/01/2024

Epiphany takes all the holidays away! But both adults and kids love this friendly witch the Befana.

Hang your stockings tonight and you will find them full of chocolate money, candies and maybe some sweer coal!

29/12/2023

May this new year take you to places you have never been before or to return to those you love… like LUCCA! 😃

Happy New Year!!! 🎉

27/12/2023

“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad”

This quote is by the great Spanish artist Salvador Dalì.

He visited Lucca and stayed at Villa Reale for the holidays. I do not think he could have possibly see these amazing drawing by the lucchese painters Pietro and Bernardino Nocchi.

Do not miss the opportunity to see these drawings at Palazzo Mansi Museum.

The second floor has them on display, usually they are in archives and it is great to compare the sketches and studies with the final work on canvas 😍

25/12/2023

Whatever is wonderful, whatever brings you joy and happiness, may it be yours this magical season, as well as the coming year.

Wishing you all the best, Merry Christmas! Buon Natale! 🎄

22/12/2023

Happy happy birthday Maestro Puccini!

This is the day when in 1858, the opera composer was born in Lucca. Have you ever visited the museum?

Only few days ago the Opera singing was included in the heritage list by Unesco as “a means of free expression and intergenerational dialogue”

I bet this is was a great gift for Mr. Puccini! 😄

20/12/2023

-5 to Christmas!

Are you excited and ready? Still some gifts to buy? It is now a tradition for me to start the 25th morning with Parkrun! 🏃

5kms on the walls, running or walking at your pace, timed and free and for the occasion the runners will have some mulled wine at the end.

Salute! Cheers! 🍷😃

14/12/2023

A street, an altar, a painting by the famous XVII century artist Guercino.

This is how you can track down Santa Lucia in LUCCA.

She represents the two opposites: light (her name and her eyesight) and the dark (the shortest day in the winter).

I like her so much because from today: Spring is on its way, just a hen’s step a day! 😀

11/12/2023

Just scrolling the news feed I have found out that today it is International Mountain Day.

In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol was signed and adopted on this day.

Have you ever climbed any mountains nearby LUCCA? ⛰️

08/12/2023

A bank holiday weekend for the Italians starting today with the Immaculate Conception.

We will be busy making the Christmas tree and decorations around the house and then gift shopping! 🎄

There are great markets and events in Lucca: Il Desco for food, Fashion in Flair at Villa Bottini and the craft Meraki Market at Palazzo Sani.

Where would you like to go? 😃

06/12/2023

Between meetings, trainings and business plans, I am really glad this group could find some time for a LUCCA walking tour and then we ended at the Crossbow men headquarters to aim the target and achieve the success! 😃

04/12/2023

What’s your favorite thing about Christmas? 🎄

There must be something! The lights, the decorations, the tree, the gifts, the traditions or the food?

This and more is what my readers will be receiving every day till the 24th in their mailboxes. 🎁

If you like the idea, sign in to my newsletter and do the countdown with me and my Advent Calendar full of surprises! 🎅🏻

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01/12/2023

Desco is an ancient Tuscan word that means table for a meal or a wooden platter, tray for food.

Instead for this and next weekend in LUCCA, it will be a great food festival taking place in the cloisters and rooms of the Real Collegio.

A true paradise for foodie and wine lovers! Do not miss it! 😋

You could make somebody really happy for Christmas! 🎄🎅🏻

29/11/2023

29 November 1924 this is the day Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels.

You may come to LUCCA, without knowing anything about him and his operas. No worries!

I am sure that if you will do a tour with me I will pique your curiosity for his music, his personal life and the heritage he has left.

"I lived in art, I lived in love, I never hurt a soul!" 😊

27/11/2023

A double loop: the Ancestors’ path and the Shepherds’ high way passing through the villages of Montefegatesi and San Cassiano di Controni.

The medieval church has some very mysterious stone decorations on the wall and above the main door on the facade.

It should represent Moses praying before a battle.

Anyway, I guess, they may also be cheering up all the hikers! 🥾

24/11/2023

🎵 Couldn’t help to have that tune in my head when I am going around LUCCA today.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! 🎄

22/11/2023

While the daughter is starting her semester abroad in Florence, this lovely family from New York came to see her but also to visit LUCCA.

Here they are after an olive oil class and what are they making?

It is a creamy, thick, cold sauce used for sandwiches, salads, burgers and french fries… 😋