sardart
5 лет назадBeautiful squares. Lucca (Italy). The _Anfiteatro square. (Photos by sardart)
Lucca is a beautiful town of Tuscany, an Italian region known worldwide for the beauty of its landscape and the richness of its historical and artistic heritage. The Chianti landscapes, the Florence's monuments and museums, its many historic villages are a true Italian excellence.
Each city or village in this region is an open-air museum.
Lucca is a walled town full of monuments and has a historic center that retains a truly suggestive and unique square: Piazza dell'Anfiteatro or Oval.
The Anfiteatro square, owes its name to the fact that it rises where it was a Roman amphitheater built in the 2nd century AD. The amphitheater, after a gradual abandonment, becomes a quarry of material, and finally welcomes and enters the ruins and arches of its wall of walls, thus delimiting an urban space that preserved the original oval shape. In the nineteenth century, a redevelopment project eliminated the houses that had already been built in the central area of the Amphitheater and had four access doors: the Anfiteatro square thus assumes its present shape.
The Amphitheater Square is one of the most photographed places in the city, and as soon as you reach this square through one of its 4 doors, you understand why. Once in the square, in fact, the feeling is unique ... you feel completely wrapped, almost embraced by the simple and colorful houses that make up this peculiar fifth urban curved!
The case histories are simple in design and not all of the same height: a sign discontinuity that contrasts beautifully with the regularity of the planimetric design of the square.
In the center of the huge head of Tindaro, a sculpture by the artist Igor Mitoraj, adds charm to this place.
Still a contrast of form, size and material in this space where you have been superbly overlapping in time using styles, knowledge, abandoning stories.
And this complexity is perceived as a whole. Fantastic!
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