There is something about the light here. Not in all of Italy necessarily, but here in our very own Lucca.
It has a special kind of otherworldly glow that illuminates places it wants us to look.
The Corinthian columns residing atop the Duomo inside the Wall, a particularly beautiful tree gently leaning over the city, the backside of a statue or even a person sitting at the bar.
Its beauty is almost overshadowed by its purpose in that it wants us to follow it, to look where it points.
This was the same light I saw the first night I arrived in Lucca in June and it beckoned me to return almost immediately after I had left.
I want to introduce myself: I’m Hannah, a young American who fell hopelessly in love with this city and left her comfortable nest in New York to come study here.
I came here in June for an opera program and still remember my first night walking on the Wall, following the light and thinking- rather knowing– I would live here one day.
I did not realize it would be so soon! I moved back here in September to study classical music in the birthplace of opera and to further my knowledge of the language.
Along my journey I have found it impossible not to stop and write down the marvels I am experiencing that caress everyone one of my senses.
If you are willing to join, I will take you through this medieval city with me and the surrounding cities of Tuscany to tell you, or really show you what I find.
As a new member to this society, I find everything to be alive and fresh and I want to explore more in depth what makes this culture so gloriously indescribable.
But I will do my best to describe it!
Come find me here every week as I breathe in this new world and I will promise you a good read.
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