9. FROM PISA TO LIGURIA
Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Lunigiana
6 days / 5 nights
 Firenze |  Firenze |  Firenze, Battistero |
|---|---|---|
 Dante's House |  Ponte Vecchio, Firenze |  Piazza dei Miracoli, Pisa |
 Piazza dei Miracoli, Pisa |  The Cathedral of Pisa |  The Cathedral of Pisa |
 Battistero, Pisa |  the tower of Pisa |  Pisa, Camposanto |
 Pisa, lungarno |  Pisa, lungarno |  Tower of Muda, Pisa |
 Piazza dei Cavalieri, Pisa |  Lucca, the walls |  Lucca, piazza Anfiteatro |
 Lucca, Tower Giunigi |  Lucca |  The Cathedral of Lucca |
 San Frediano, Lucca |  Mulazzo, Tower of Dante |  Mulazzo |
 Fosdinovo, Castello |  Fosdinovo |  Castelnuovo Magra |
 Castle of Virgoletta |  Castle of Malnido, Lunigiana |  Castle of Malgrate, Villafranca |
Travel Plan:
1st Day – FLORENCE
Arrivo a Firenze, trasferimento in hotel, cena e pernottamento.
2nd Day – FLORENCE
Full day guided tour of Florence: Santa Maria Novella Church and Square, Florence Baptistery, Dante's House, the Church of Santa Margherita de 'Cerchi. In this way you can experience the Florentine years of Dante, from youth to exile. Free lunch. In the evening return to hotel, dinner and overnight.
3rd Day – PISA
Departure to Pisa where we will visit the Dantesque places ranging from the Square of Elders (today Piazza dei Cavalieri) with the Tower of Fame (where Count Ugolino and his sons were imprisoned), S. Sisto and S. Giorgio dei Tedeschi (dedicated to the dead fighters in 1315, in the great Ghibelline victory of Montecatini, beside Uguccione Faggiola), Cathedral Square (Tower, Duomo and Baptistery) until the frescoes of the Cemetery of the Last Judgment and Hell, and ends at the grave and tomb Arrigo VII. Free lunch. Dinner and overnight.
4th Day – LUCCA
Departure to Lucca, beautiful Unesco city. Here we will visit the city walls dating from the XV-XVI century, that still surround it completely and are very well preserved, the Amphitheatre, the Cathedral of San Martino and the Tower of the Guinigi. Free lunch. In the afternoon departure for the Lunigiana, known as "the land of a hundred castles", a territory on the border with Liguria where Dante spent a period of his exile as guest of the Marquis Malaspina. Dinner and overnight.
5th Day – LUNIGIANA
We will begin the visits from Mulazzo in the northern part of Lunigiana. The village has two access doors and preserves the original structure characterized by narrow streets. Site of an ancient ligurian castle ruins (fortified enclosure) and a castle of which only the so-called Tower of Dante, which recalls the presence of the poet in Lunigiana, Mulazzo is also possible to admire the ancient arches of the Malaspina and Piazza Dante, dominated by the church of St. Nicholas, the palace Malaspina Zini. Free lunch. Continue to Villafranca in Lunigiana where we will visit the castle of Malgrate, the castle and the Malnido Virgoletta Castle. Dinner and overnight
6th Day – LUNIGIANA
We will start with a visit to the castle of Fosdinovo, perhaps the best preserved of Lunigiana. The castle holds many legends and stories, as it has hosted Dante and the ghost of a young girl punished by parents for falling in love with a groom to appear in his chambers. Continue to Castelnuovo Magra and visit the ruins of the Bishop's Palace, where Dante signed peace with the bishop of Luni on behalf of the Marquis Malaspina. Free lunch and return to their places of origin.
Price per person starting from € 540,00
Prices per person based on groups of 25 participants on half-board basis and cost guides included.
Transportation, entrance fees to places visited, drink excluded.
Tours will be made with a minimum of 08 participants
For information:
info@leterredidante.it
Poscia che fummo al quarto dì venuti,
Gaddo mi si gittò disteso a’ piedi,
dicendo: "Padre mio, ché non mi aiuti?".
Quivi morì; e come tu mi vedi,
vid’io cascar li tre ad uno ad uno
tra ’l quinto dì e ’l sesto; ond’io mi diedi,
già cieco, a brancolar sovra ciascuno,
e due dì li chiamai, poi che fur morti.
Poscia, più che ’l dolor, poté ’l digiuno».
Quand’ebbe detto ciò, con li occhi torti
riprese ’l teschio misero co’denti,
che furo a l’osso, come d’un can, forti.
Ahi Pisa, vituperio de le genti
del bel paese là dove ’l sì suona,
poi che i vicini a te punir son lenti,
muovasi la Capraia e la Gorgona,
e faccian siepe ad Arno in su la foce,
sì ch’elli annieghi in te ogne persona!
(If., canto XXXIII)
Godi, Fiorenza, poi che se' sí grande,
che per mare e per terra batti l'ali,
e per lo 'nferno tuo nome si spande!
(If., canto XXVI)
cominciò ella, «se novella vera
di Val di Magra o di parte vicina
sai, dillo a me, che già grande là era.
Fui chiamato Currado Malaspina;
non son l’antico, ma di lui discesi;
a’ miei portai l’amor che qui raffina».
«Oh!», diss’io lui, «per li vostri paesi
già mai non fui; ma dove si dimora
per tutta Europa ch’ei non sien palesi?
La fama che la vostra casa onora,
grida i segnori e grida la contrada,
sì che ne sa chi non vi fu ancora;
e io vi giuro, s’io di sopra vada,
che vostra gente onrata non si sfregia
del pregio de la borsa e de la spada.
Uso e natura sì la privilegia,
che, perché il capo reo il mondo torca,
sola va dritta e ‘l mal cammin dispregia».
(Pg., canto VIII)