The old town of Lucca is surrounded by ramparts. We started our day strolling along the ramparts.
We also found a small park on the ramparts where we let the girls swing for a little while. Check out the snow capped mountains in the background.
After a delicous lunch, we headed over to Pisa to check out the infamous Leaning Tower of Pisa.... probably less then 30 minutes away, and on the outskirts of town.....and to be honest, when Matt and I saw it, we were completely underwhelmed. I don't know what we were expecting but I think we thought it would be much larger then it was. And what a tourist trap! With the sun setting much earlier here now that the time has changed, we didn't really get a chance to do much else then tour the area around the tower. We hear the town of Pisa actually has a lot more to offer, so if we're ever over that way again, we might have to skip the crowds and the tower and see Pisa itself.
We couldn't get over how many people were trying to hold up the tower, so we got a picture of Grace doing it, too.
We didn't go up. But we did tour the Cathedral and Baptistry (pictured below) and they were beautiful.
We even got to hear the amazing acoustics at work in the Baptistry, which is the largest in Italy. Every 30 minutes, a security guard sings just so you can hear the echo. A single sound echos for 10 seconds. Grace and I climbed to the top and checked out the view from above, too.
Here's an album of all of our pictures from Lucca and Pisa: Lucca and Pisa
