Tourist attraction
Bagni di Lucca
55022 Bagni di Lucca, Province of Lucca
Nineteenth-century iron chain suspension bridge strung over a mountain river where floods once swept away a medieval crossing.
This guide to Bagni di Lucca follows the iron chain bridge over the Lima River, where a five-hundred-year-old stone crossing attributed to the warlord Castruccio Castracani was swept away by flood. It traces how Duke Carlo Ludovico di Borbone sent his architect Lorenzo Nottolini to study English suspension bridges at Hammersmith and Clifton before he built a replacement here in eighteen forty. Stand at the center of the span and look down at the same current that once erased the old bridge in a single storm.
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