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Plaque on Entrance Gate in Historic Old City Walls, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy Royalty Free Stock Photo

Plaque on Entrance Gate in Historic Old City Walls, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. The walls encircling the old town remain intact, even as the city expanded and modernized, unusual for cities in the region. Initially built as a defensive rampart, once the walls lost their military importance they became a pedestrian promenade, the Passeggiata delle Mura Urbane, a street atop the walls linking the bastions.