Excursions near Viareggio
Upon arrival, the reception of the Hotel Esplanade in Viareggio, our staff is always available to provide all relevant information for a pleasant and unforgettable stay in Viareggio.
To provide every customer with their stay most congenial to him hope to do something to please advise in certain activities and services that we offer to our guests for lovers of reading For example, we created a small library with contemporary and classical texts available in Italian, English, French and German.
For lovers of golf, 15 km from the Hotel Esplanade is a beautiful 18-hole golf course.
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Lucca
20 km is the historic city of Lucca, entirely surrounded by walls built between the sixteenth and seventeenth century: thus the entrance to the city must necessarily be through the six doors. for info visit :....
Pisa
The ideal time to visit Pisa summer for the beauty that offers its coastline, but late summer and early autumn for the nuances that take the Tuscan hills.
You can start your tour of Pisa starting from the Ponte di Mezzo, once called Old Bridge, because the oldest among all bridges in the city was rebuilt after the Second World War.
The Marble Quarries of Carrara
Apuan Alps the spectacular caves marble reflect an image evocative and fascinating.
The Cinque Terre
Between Riomaggiore and Manarola, cut into the rock, you are in the Way of Love.
Corniglia climbing the hill has a great protected beach, ideal for holidays in contact with nature.
Monterosso al Mare with its spacious and well equipped beach, also has a great attraction to artistic and landscape: the medieval Torre Aurora that divides the old town from the new (Fegina) and the Crucifix in S. Van Dyck Francis Hill Sanctuary Soviore eighteenth century.
Events in Versilia
- The Carnival of Viareggio
- The Viareggio Carnival was born in 1873: the dances in those years were consumed in the magnificent premises of the Teatro Regio Pacini and Casino.
Parties were elite: young affluent who took part were totally foreign to the soul that Viareggio has always distinguished from other nearby Tuscan cities, where wealthy families swarmed with the pastime of gambling parlors and good.
Viareggio was the city instead of the sailors, the port, the masters of the ax and caulk, sand and peat bogs.
The fortunate few who could afford to take part in those celebrations were the usual frequenters of the hippodrome, which stood in the area Piazza D'Azeglio, the only ones who could walk the streets of the city aboard elegant carriages.
Just the coaches of Viareggio and the scions of well moneyed families of Lucca and Florence were the forerunners of the current paper mache floats: the first Viareggio Carnival was indeed a parade of floats covered with flowers along the King's Highway, the first street of the city which Viareggio is the name.
Is actually the following year that the carnival becomes a kind of institution, with both requests and allowed the City and the first signs of a carefree spirit and opened a joke but frank and sincere.
Viareggio Carnival starts to get serious.
And like all the other cities in which a party, even the small town of sailors and shipwrights wants his mask.
The arduous task was entrusted to Uberto Bonetti, futurist painter inspired by other forms of Italy to create the symbol of Carnival: a bright red hat borrowed from Rugantino, the long black cloak Balanzone, custom checkered red and white inspired by Harlequin, the ruff of Captain Spaventa and pom-pom white Pierrot.
The funny clown is named after Burlamacco, which stems from the channel between the city, Burlamacca, and the licentious character Buffalmacco.
Thank Bonetti, Viareggio also has his mask.
The Cup Carnival
Organizes itself in Viareggio from 58 years, by the SC Youth Centre Football ASD, the sporting event called "World Soccer Cup Tournament Carnival, also known as the" Viareggio ".
Viareggio Prize
Viareggio Prize, takes place in summer and was founded in 1929 in the town of Viareggio from Leonidas Repaci, and Carlo Alberto Colantuoni Salsa.Leonida Repaci, author of History of the brothers Cliff, write later why it was decided to base the new literary prize. The opening ceremony attended by Luigi Pirandello Prize and Massimo Bontempelli and the first edition of the award was won jointly by Lorenzo Viani with Back to home Alpes published by the publishing house of Benito Mussolini and the painter Anselm Balducci wheel, the publisher Ceschina.Ma obviously this was not enough and in 1931 replaced Repaci Lando Ferretti and in 1934 was even Galeazzo Ciano to assume supervision of premio.Allo outbreak of World War II interrupted the prize was then revived by the will of Repaci that kept him alive with a strong determination until his death in 1985.
EuropaCinema
EuropaCinema was founded in Rimini in 1984 by Felix Laudadio director of the Venice International Film Festival of the Venice Biennale in 1997-98 and President of Cinecittà Holding from 1999 to 2002, and since 1999 Director of Taormina.
EuropaCinema born with the collaboration of Federico Fellini, who created the logo of the festival and the first poster, made in subsequent years by Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Ettore Scola, Marcello Mastroianni and Ingmar Bergman.
EuropaCinema immediately became one of the most prestigious festivals in Europe, once considered by producers, distributors and authors as an 'effective alternative to the Venice Film Festival. Role he has maintained and even strengthened when the festival was finally transferred in 1989 in Viareggio.
EuropaCinema presented as world premieres or Italian, hundreds of the most significant films of European production and international hosted a series of tributes dedicated to writers and European roots of the great American movies.
Torre del Lago Puccini
Its name originates from the presence of some fortifications that arise on the nearby Lake Massaciuccoli.
The original name of Torre del Lago has been added recently to Puccini to honor the great composer Giacomo Puccini lived and composed many of his most famous operas.
The His house is visited and is a destination for tourists and opera enthusiasts from around the world.
Every year in summer, in honor of Puccini opera festival is held the important "Puccini Festival", which are represented in an outdoor theater overlooking the lake Massaciuccoli some works of the composer.
You can rent bikes for all ages, for both half day and for long periods.
