Everything is ready for the arrival in the city of the fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia, from Genoa to Luccawhich will arrive on Viale Carducci on Wednesday (8 May).
To find out everything about the pink race, the experts rely on the official guide, Garibaldi. However, the description of the city does not appear particularly accurate. That’s what it says in the entry Places of interest: “Piazza San Michele, surrounded by mighty Renaissance walls, the heart of the city; the characteristic Piazza Anfiteatro; the cathedral of San Martino with the masterpieces of the Volto Santo and the monument to Ilaria del Carretto, among the best examples of Italian funerary sculpture of the 15th century; the Guinigi Tower, with the hanging garden”.
And suggestions at the table: “Tordelli with ragù, Frantoiana soup, rovellina, buccellato, cakes with beaks (vegetable or chocolate). For wines, invice, Colline Lucchesi DOC and Montecarlo DOC. Finally, the events reported are those that cannot be overlooked: Lucca Comics and Lucca Summer Festival. The photo is the iconic one of Piazza Anfiteatro from above.
In short, to make people know more about the city, we rely on the anecdotes and storytelling of the writer Fabio Genovesi during the live broadcast on Rai.
On Garibaldi, then, the routes of the stage, the roads traveled and the altitude. From here information on the expected arrival time: between approximately 5pm and 5.30pm, depending on the average speed at which you will travel.
A stage finish in Lucca of the Giro d’Italia has been missing since 1985, when the pink race ended with an individual time trial from Lido di Camaiore to Lucca: Francesco Moser won but was unable to take the jersey off Bernard Hinault. In Piazza Napoleone there was a protest and the patron of the Giro, Vincenzo Torriani, launched the anathema: Lucca would no longer see the two-wheel champions. For 39 years, in fact, it has been like this.
