Forbes, the well-known business and finance magazine, recently ranked Lucca
the second among the ‘most idyllic’ places to live in Europe. In compiling the
list, each member of a panel of travel-savvy experts identified five ‘favorite,
simple, unspoiled and near-heavenly locations to take up residence’ that have
yet to ‘be pounced on by hurried, mass-market tourism’. Lucca, the magazine
reports, has ‘all the Tuscan charm of its neighbors Pisa and Florence but
without the crowds’ in addition to being ‘quiet, though classy’.
