Lucca Cathedral of San Martino Tuscany Italy September 2022 Exterior seen from the City Walls Cathedral of San Martino. Lucca Cathedral, Duomo di Lucc
Lucca Cathedral of San Martino Tuscany Italy September 2022 Exterior seen from the City Walls Cathedral of San Martino. Lucca Cathedral, Duomo di Lucca, Cattedrale di San Martino is a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours in Lucca, Italy. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Lucca. In the nave a small octagonal temple or chapel shrine contains the most precious relic in Lucca, the Holy Face of Lucca (Italian: Volto Santo di Lucca) or Sacred Countenance. This cedar-wood crucifix and image of Christ, according to the legend, was carved by his contemporary Nicodemus, and miraculously conveyed to Lucca in 782 Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000 Lucca is known as one of the Italian's "Città d'arte" (Arts town), thanks to its intact Renaissance-era city walls and its very well preserved historic center, where, among other buildings and monuments, are located the Piazza dell'Anfiteatro, which has its origins in the second half of the 1st century and the Guinigi Tower, a 45-metre-tall (150 ft) tower that dates from the 1300s. The city is also the birthplace of numerous world-class composers, including Giacomo Puccini, Alfredo Catalani, and Luigi Boccherini.
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