Thank you SO much for posting this. I will be traveling to Italy this summer and Lucca is one of the planned stops.
If you're going to be in southern Italy,don't miss Pompeii...or Capri.They're both fairly close to Naples.
Also note,southern Italy in the summer is hot,hot,HOT!
And humid!
Whoops. Somehow I replied to the wrong FReeper. Sorry.
Confederacy of Dunces, please see my original reply:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1606221/posts?page=10#10