The historical Republic of Lucca and its province provide a unique venue for the study of the rich yet tumultuous urban and rural life of early modern Italy. And of the military defences of Renaissance and early modern Europe the historical period that witnessed the gunpowder revolution and its attendant developments in defensive architecture, engineering, warfare, and to a large extent culture and daily life. The Florentine novelist, Guido Piovene, maintained that Lucca was the only Italian city which is totally enclosed, ringed about by the high bulwark which it built in the 16th and 17th centuries, and which still hides it from the eyes of anyone arriving from the surrounding plain. By the early nineteenth-century the starkly forbidding appearance of the walls had been softened by the ring of trees planted atop the massive walls leading poet Gabriele DAnnunzio to celebrate Lucca as the city of the wooded circle. The Hotel Universo is in the very centre of these walls. 46 Comfort rooms, 3De Luxe and 3 Junior Suites and 2 Family rooms equipped with direct dial phone, mini bar and television. The restaurant, recently renovated, offers a very high quality an exquisite cuisine in a quiet and refined environment, which is the perfect setting for the calm and elegant atmosphere of Hotel universo. From 10th till 28th September, Hotel Universo will host an exhibition of PUBLIA CRUCIANIs sculptures named The Universe of Publia. The exhibition is cured by Carlo Peruzzi for GIANO arte in collezione and it presents for the first time in Tuscany the Roman artist, who characterizes herself for the particular style and materials used. The exhibition finds its place among the numerous cultural events of the famous Settembre Lucchese and seems to be a little, magic corner, a kind of precious living room to be discovered step by step moving in the warm and dreaming atmosphere of and ideal galleon pending between heaven and sea. Inthis precious pix, the characters and sculptures, shown in an established course, tell the universe of Publia, which is probably common to the most???? Hotel Universo is pleased to offer a welcome cocktail to the visitors as in the tradition of its historical activity, being hotel and hosting famous Italian and International artists and literary men since the mid eighteens century.