Is held annually between late October and early November in Lucca in an area of 30,000 square meters, of which about 15,000 are exhibition. All major stakeholders participate and a growing number of specialty stores, comics stores and recreational and cultural associations. The days of the exhibition market are teeming with events of live role-playing, concerts, screenings meetings with authors,presentations and performances dedicated to this adventurous universe made of clouds and games. Both in Lucca Comics and  Lucca Games you can find exhibits and exhibition dedicated to the main artists or titles present at the festival. Some of these are arranged in the picturesque Renaissance setting of the city.

The Lucca Summer Festival is a musical event that is held in Lucca during the month of July Since 1998. The city of Lucca, inside its beautiful walls, with concerts in Piazza Napoleone, Piazza San Michele, Piazza San Martino and Piazza dell'Anfiteatro creates a magical atmosphere for every exhibition. bands and soloists of national and international value have walked the stages of the Lucca Summer Festival, always gaining great response from the public, from Bob Dylan to the onset of magnificent performances by The Eagles, Sugar, or Elton John Ennio Morricone. In case of special turnout of spectators sometimes it is also preferred to use the football stadium or the Porta Elisa Stadio dei Pini in Viareggio.




Recitals, opera selections, special concerts throughout the year, every day of the year in the most fascinating Basilica in the center of Lucca "St John" all at the same time (concerts start at 19:00) and all executed by renowned singers and national and international pianists. A great opportunity to appreciate the voice of the world's most famous man from Lucca (perhaps the world's most popular Italian).  above all, though, always with different performers and programs every night in order to give the public the broader idea of the great genius of Puccini often compared  to the music and the tunes of other major Italian artists. All this in the city where he was born and lived and in a church so closely linked to key moments of his life (source "http://www.puccinielasualucca.it").

The history of the Crossbow is reborn in Lucca in 1970 when a group of friends, eager to rediscover the glories of the past citizen, founds la Compagnia Balestrieri Lucca with the aim of reviving the old "Palio della Balestra" held continuously in Lucca from the twelfth to the seventeenth century. (source http://www.compagniabalestrierilucca.it/)








The sacred feast of the Holy Cross has a historical tradition that has lasted 12 centuries, celebrated is the Holy Face which, for the occasion is clothed with the sacred clothes of the festival, this tradition has crossed the borders of Italy and has worldwide resonance today highlighted especially in those European and non European countries where there are Lucchesi emigrant communities.
Not by chance each year to the solemn procession and illuminations that are
held on the evening of 13 September are attended not only by civil and military authorities of the Province but by the crossbowmen, many with medieval costumes, representatives of all the towns of Tuscany and the brotherhoods of the diocese, and representatives of Lucca in the world with the banners of states of origin.



The literary journey, with mosaics, sculptures and buildings surrounded by greenery, is born thanks to the 'union between art and the environment: the course is tortuous, the dense vegetation ensures that each stage appears surprising and unexpected, the plants themselves help to create the atmosphere and the episodes of the story of the Adventures of Pinocchio.
The park itself is a place of cultural activity always renovated but never forgetting their roots: exhibitions of art and illustrations inspired by the reading for the children and the Story of Pinocchio, laboratories creating puppets, puppet shows, puppets and storytellers enrich, according to the season, the visit to the Park.

The Viareggio Carnival is considered one of the most important and most popular carnivals in Italy and Europe.

Carnival of Viareggio. Characterizing it internationally are various sized allegorical trailers that parade on Sundays of January and February, and which stand huge papier-mache caricatures of famous men in the field of politics, culture and entertainment, whose characteristic features - especially facial features - are highlighted with satire and irony. The trailers - which are the largest and most moving of the world - parade along the promenade in Viareggio, a boulevard that runs over two miles between the beach and the Art Nouveau style buildings overlooking the Ligurian Sea.