Lucca Apartment for Rent: A light and spacious one bedroom flat in Lucca - Property 410600

The apartment is located on the third floor of a : 16th century palazzo, once the home of Boccherini, the Lucchese violinist and composer who created The Minuet and along with Puccini, one of Lucca's famous son's. The steps (70 but not steep) are worth the climb when you see the amazing views of the mountains from the large picture windows, from which you look out over a piazza, red terracotta rooftops, an evocative 12thcentury bell tower and the ragged white iced or purple mountains in the distance. ?The décor is all light cream interiors, all the better to highlight the traditional ochre of the surrounding buildings and the multicoloured parade in the piazza below.The windows are well placed to catch - if you are lucky - one of the regular traditional parades that pass beneath. In the middle of the piazza is a white marble sculpture of a toga robed woman who carries an urn on her shoulder. She stands regally over a great marble bath guarded by lions and from here the locals fill their bottles with fresh spring water.

The light and spacious high ceiling flat: consists of an entrance hall, a sitting room, separate kitchen, bathroom, huge romantic bedroom and spectacular views over Piazza San Salvatore and across the red rooftops of Lucca to the mountains of the Garfagnana and Northern Tuscany beyond.

“My home in Lucca is a special place,: a magical place where the light is golden. As the sun sets over the mountains, outside the window a thin gold line appears on the wall. Opposite, on the far wall a wide shadow of dappled gold. ?Sometimes when I wake up, early in the morning or in the middle of the night and I catch myself lying there facing the window and the wide sky that shifts with clouds or is speckled with stars and the lights burning on the mountain far away, I think I must be dreaming. I cannot, for a moment, remember how I came to be here. That 800 year old bell tower, a tapestry of fine medieval brickwork and stone, changing colours from sunrise to sunset. Each piece of broken stone of grey, yellow, cream, black, broken representing a patchwork of other lives witnessed through the ages, and the veils and layers of my own life whispering across the piazza, and a round window half way up like a porthole from which the swallows and I come and go year after year'' Ciara Ferguson.