The inauguration of the permanent exhibition Re-Knowing the Walls , the new widespread project of the municipal administration for the valorisation of the sorties and underground areas of the main city monument , is scheduled for Wednesday (19 June) at 5pm.

The installation work has been completed in the basement of the Santa Croce bastion (access near Porta San Donato), the first step of the project, where citizens and visitors will find a path of images and texts along the two galleries and in the centre, with panels made of cor-ten steel and with some projections of a narrative nature (in the tower area) with the story of the system and protocols that supervised the moment of opening and closing of the doors in the city at the time of the Republic of Lucca and, in the parade ground, some panels on the military functioning of the defensive structure.

The places identified for the design and implementation of the tourist-cultural project are the aforementioned underground of the Santa Croce bastion, the Castle of Porta San Donato nuova and the underground of the San Colombano bastion.

The space used for the tourist reception of the Porta San Donato nuova Castle will in fact be equipped with interactive tools for narration, with which the miracle of San Paolino , patron saint of the city, will be illustrated through details of the painting which is still preserved in the church today homonymous. The second phase of the project, which will materialize in the coming months, will instead involve the suggestive underground of the San Colombano bastion, which will host an exhibition on the symbols, the events of the city, the sixteenth-century Fabbrica delle Mura and on the relationship of the inhabitants with the monument since the sixteenth century to date . This venue will be set up with multimedia elements, models and models, reconstructions of tools and weapons from objects present in Italian museums. MORE INFO