Bagna di Lucca Holidays

Bagna di Lucca Holidays - Sedate and relaxed
Bagna di Lucca holidays offer a historic spa town with a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, in a quiet unassuming part of Tuscany. Located just 20km from Lucca, the town of Bagna di Lucca sits in the green valley of the Garfagnana region at the base of the Apennines Mountains, amidst chestnut forests and meadows. Dating back to Roman times, Bagna di Lucca is one of the oldest spa towns in Europe, and has enjoyed a long history as a tourist resort and healing centre. Bagna di Lucca holidays became fashionable during the late 19th and early 20th century, and the resort played host to such famous names as Byron, Shelley, Rossini and Puccini.

Holidays in Bagna di Lucca - Famous spa town and resort of the last century
Once a tourist hotspot attracting the most influential people of the time, today Bagna di Lucca is a sleepy little town, with a colourful past. Holidays in Bagna di Lucca ('baths of Lucca') are famed for the regions' thermal hot springs, and visitors can make use of the centres in the area still open today, offering a number of health and beauty treatments. The town of Bagna di Lucca also lays claim to being home to the first casino in Europe, the site of which is now a museum. Bagna di Lucca holidays offer elegant old houses and grand villas where famous visitors once slept, and the town is home to a charming main square with a mountain river running through it. The town itself is divided up into distinct areas - Fornoli, the main residential area, and La Villa, the site of shops and hotels - and is home to a number of good restaurants, most offering good-value set-price lunch or dinners. As well as trips to the thermal springs, holidays in Bagna di Lucca offer swimming in an open-air pool, and a tennis club. 

Bagna di Lucca Holidays - Ideally placed to explore northern Tuscany
Holidays in Bagna di Lucca are ideally placed to explore the quiet and relatively unspoilt region of northern Tuscany, the Garfagnana Valley. Easy day trips whilst on a holiday to Bagna di Lucca include the well-preserved walled town of Lucca, with its medieval streets and impressive shopping, and the charming hill-top town of Barga. Bagna di Lucca holidays are also within easy reach of more familiar Tuscan destinations, such as Pisa and Florence.