Sept 20 - Lucca (Day trip to Pistoia)

 Sept 20 - Lucca (Day trip to Pistoia)

A day out to Pistoia today, a town sometimes known as ‘mini’ Florence due to its architecture.  After a pleasant train ride of about an hour we arrived in town and………., well not a lot really!  We’d got some suggestions of places to see from the tourist information office, however, all but one we visited were closed!  Thinking that we’d done something wrong, like visiting at the wrong times, or something similar, we went back to the tourist info bloke who told us that as it was a Saints day most of them weren’t going to open!  It didn’t take long either to find out that this religious holiday affected nearly all shops and restaurants as well! 😳


The one place we did manage to visit though was the Church of San Francesco, a lovely church with some really nice frescoes.  

This experience actually made us realise how lucky we’d been so far, considering how many saints days holidays there are in Italy, and this one was to first to effect us. 


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