The Matilde tower is a tower in Viareggio, an example of 16th century military architecture. It is called “Torre Matilde” due to the erroneous attribution of its construction to Matilde of Canossa. History Following the advancement of the coast line, the castle of Viareggio (castrum de via regia, built in 1172 and the only access to the sea of Lucca from 1441 with the landing place of the mouth of the Selice, current Burlamacc ...

The Aghinolfi castle overlooks the town of Montignoso, five kilometers south of the town of Massa. The name of the castle clearly indicates its Longobard origins and it is in fact demonstrated that the area in which it is located once belonged to this crown. In the fortified complex, an octagonal keep stands out for its beauty and accuracy, which stands on the highest point of the hill. The polygonal shape and the particular type o ...

The term Baby Girl Waiting (so called because she is depicted waiting for her now dead mother) traditionally indicates a funerary sculpture that adorns the metal aedicule of the Barsanti-Beretta family in the municipal cemetery of Viareggio. The monument, created in 1895 by the Carrara sculptor Ferdinando Marchetti, was designed by the client Eugenio Barsanti, one of the founders of the Viareggio Republican Party, to commemorate hi ...

The Palazzo Pretorio is an ancient medieval building from the 14th century in the Piazza del Duomo of Pietrasanta. It is also known as Palazzo di Perrotto degli Streghi, from the name of the owner, a citizen of Lucca, who sold it to the community. Since then the Palace was the seat of the Captain of Justice and housed the prisons. Later it was the seat of the Banco dei Vicari, and finally of the Magistrates Court. In the vestibule an ...

The Rocchetta Arrighina is a 14th century military building in Pietrasanta, next to the arch of Porta a Pisa. History To strengthen the defensive system of Pietrasanta, in 1324 Castruccio Castracani had the Rocca di Sala strengthened and the Rocchetta Arrighina built adjacent to the Porta a Pisa. It was the same leader who intended to give it this name in honor of his son Arrigo. «On the 20th of March 1324, having considered that i ...

Forte Lorenese, also known as a “small fort”, is a military construction in the center of the Italian town of Forte dei Marmi. History The coastal fortification was built in the eighteenth century by the Lorraines, with defensive and sighting functions along the northern coast of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, together with the twin fort of Castagneto and fort of Bibbona (1788). It could communicate through the emission of ligh ...

The Viareggio lighthouse is a maritime lighthouse in the Ligurian Sea located at the mouth of the Burlamacca canal in Viareggio, near the port infrastructure. The infrastructure was built by the Regia Marina in 1863 for the night lighting of the corresponding coastal stretch; the current appearance was given by a restructuring of the twentieth century. After the construction of the outer breakwater, later equipped with its own mor ...

The lighthouse of the breakwater is a maritime lighthouse of the Ligurian Sea which is located in Viareggio on the breakwater at the mouth of the dock of the port infrastructure. Electrically powered and rotating beacon, the beacon is fitted with a 1000 W main halogen lamp which emits a white flash every 5 seconds with a range of 24 nautical miles. The infrastructure is also equipped with a 100 W reserve LABI lamp with a range of 1 ...