Pietrasanta is a blessed town: the Apuan Alps, immense and wild, rise right behind it and the sea is only a few kilometres away. This town is also an example of historic Italy keeping up with the times, of how it can be ‘invented’ as a tourist destination by focusing on the art, culture and food of an area without contaminating it. The town has a well-kept centre, its streets teeming with art galleries, works by important internationally renowned artists, fashionable boutiques and shops, peculiar restaurants, as well as wine bars and clubs famous for their unique, almost bohemian style, which make Pietrasanta truly unique. Pietrasanta is also known as ‘Little Athens’, so called because of the concentration of artists from all over the world who have chosen it as their home and for those who have passed through, leaving their mark as a centre for marble and bronze work of international importance. This town has a fantastic tradition: the fine habit of permanently opening its exhibition spaces and museums to allow residents, tourists and visitors to appreciate and learn about art and history even outside the summer season. To relax after a day at the seaside or at culture, an aperitif in one of the many bars overlooking the Piazza del Duomo or a suggestive visit – perhaps with a view of the sunset over the sea – to the ancient city walls, which overlook the Piazza del Duomo from the top of a green hill, is not to be missed.

Pietrasanta: a perfect city alive all year round.