Comments on: La Festa della Santa Croce

By: serena

serena — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:16:45 +0000

Salve Jo, I don’t live in Lucca any more, so I’m not up to date with timetables, restaurants and places. I had a look on the internet but couldn’t find any information. The procession of Santa Croce is always on the evening of the 13th of September. It starts inside the Basilica di San Frediano and ends inside the Cathedral. It takes place in the evening (I can’t remember the exact time, maybe 8 o’clock), after a solemn Mass, and lasts a couple of hours. If you don’t belong to a parish group, association, etc. you don’t follow the procession but watch it go by.
My parents lived in the periphery of Lucca, so we used to walk to Lucca, but the best place to park it’s probably “Parcheggio di Via delle Tagliate” near the main cemetery and the fun fair! You can walk into Lucca from there, or catch “la navetta” (the bus shuttle).
Auguri!

Serena

By: Jo Hanny

Jo Hanny — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:29:33 +0000

We will be Lucca for the festival this year.
Where to park? We will be arriving in the morning.
What time to make a dinner reservation after the festival? Approximately what time does it begin?
Do you follow the procession or stand and watch it go by? Where is the best place to be when it starts? THANK YOU!

By: serena

serena — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:16:22 +0000

Salve Marybeth, I don’t live in Lucca,and in the past I used to stay at my parents’ apartment, but I would imagine that restaurants will be open during ‘La Festa di Santa Croce’ as there are many tourists coming to see the festival.

Saluti da Serena

By: marybeth

marybeth — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:14:45 +0000

Serena, thank you so much for this informative article about the festa della santa croce. Are restaurants typically open for dinner during such festivals? Grazie mille, Marybeth

By: Bill Rohwer

Bill Rohwer — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:48:02 +0000

Grazie mille, Serena,

per la tua risposta. It was very helpful. It also confirmed the understanding our local frutta e verdura merchant friend, Bruno, has given us. That understanding is that the Italian people are, by nature, molto, molto socièvole, or to use your term, ospitale. In addition, both you and Bruno are telling us, I think, that Italians make judgments about individuals, not about classes of people like “Germans” or “Americans,” or members of political coalitions like the PD or the PDL.

As an American, though, I’m struggling to understand how gli Italiani hanno tanta clemenza verso i tedeschi dopo il comportamento dei tedeschi durante 1943-44 a Stazzema e anche a Monte Sole. I struggle equally to understand how the Japanese can forgive us Americans for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Forse la grammatica è più facile, sebbene per un Americano la grammatica Italiana sia impossibilamente difficile!

Un saluto,

Bill