Puccini Cycle Path

Bike touring routes & trails

Italy

Tuscany

Lucca

Puccini Cycle Path

Moderate

4.2

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308

riders

Puccini Cycle Path

03:58

53.3km

150m

Cycling

To discover the Puccini cycle path, pedal out of the center of Lucca and in a few minutes you'll be above the Renaissance walls, which have remained intact for five centuries, today transformed into a long tree-lined park that embraces the entire city. From up there, Tuscany opens up before you without haste, and this is precisely the pace the route asks of you: slow and curious.

Descend towards the Serchio river and let the river be your guide through villages, cultivated fields, and corners of unspoiled nature. The landscape changes slowly, and every pedal stroke brings you closer to a world suspended between water and silence: that of Lake Massaciuccoli, where the walkways seem made just to make you slow down even more and listen to the sounds of the LIPU oasis that guards it.

It is here, amidst these very atmospheres, that Giacomo Puccini found inspiration for his most beloved operas. You can visit his birthplace in Lucca and then the villa in Torre del Lago, imagining the notes that were born while looking at the same lake that is now before you. Pedaling on the Ciclovia Puccini means this: harmony, music, relaxation. The return journey is retracing the cycle path back to Lucca.

by Strade di Lucca Bike Hub

Last updated: August 19, 2026

Tips

Cycling is not permitted along parts of this route

After 24.6 km for 593 m

After 25.8 km for 593 m

After 48.3 km for 234 m

Waypoints

Start point

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3.97 km

Serchio River

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The Serchio River is the main watercourse of the Lucca area, a vital element that caresses the city and shapes its surrounding landscape. Its banks are lined by a beautiful river park, where a flat cycle path allows for peaceful cycling immersed in nature.

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22.3 km

Puccini Cycle Path

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The Ciclovia Puccini is a cycle-pedestrian itinerary of about 50-58 km that tells the story of the places and life of the famous composer Giacomo Puccini, from Lucca to Lake Massaciuccoli. Thanks to special signage with QR codes, it is possible to cycle while listening to the Maestro's symphonies at selected points along the route, which winds between the Renaissance walls of Lucca and the bank of the Serchio river.

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25.0 km

Boardwalks on Lake Massaciuccoli

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On the path of the Puccini cycle and pedestrian path, wonderful passages between the canals of Lake Massacciucoli.

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25.5 km

LIPU Massaciuccoli Oasis

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Chiarone Nature Reserve. There is a nature trail consisting of a wooden walkway on stilts for a length of about 800 meters, and continues with a flat path inside a small strip of humid lowland wood. Along the way there are 4 observatories thanks to which you can peek without bothering the various animals that populate this reserve.
A pleasant and suggestive walk that plunges into a unique environment where it is possible to observe the typical flora of the marshes and hygrophilous woods, insects, fish and other aquatic organisms and of course, with a little attention, the various species of birds that populate this environment, an important resting, wintering and breeding area.

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46.3 km

Ponte della Musica Popolare Angelo Fagiolini

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This bridge connects the two cyclepaths on both sides of the river.

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48.6 km

Left-bank Cycle Path, Serchio River Park, Lucca

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Here you can start the beautiful cycle path on the left side of the fluvial park of Lucca which runs alongside the Serchio river on both sides.

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51.3 km

Lucca City Walls Loop

Highlight • Monument

Walk or ride around Lucca on the city’s wall. A no traffic loop with a special view on the city.

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53.3 km

End point

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

20.6 km

16.5 km

7.67 km

7.08 km

1.41 km

Surfaces

19.7 km

14.4 km

10.2 km

8.77 km

251 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Thursday 29 October

21°C

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Comments

July 3, 2026

To discover the Puccini cycle path, pedal out of the center of Lucca and in a few minutes you'll be above the Renaissance walls, which have remained intact for five centuries, today transformed into a long tree-lined park that embraces the entire city. From up there, Tuscany opens up before you without

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