Another walk around Lucca a bit of shopping and
a visit to the museum that holds items associated with the cathedral. It would seem that the Lucchese are a rather
dodgy bunch. One of the items is a
beautiful gold cross which had once belonged to Pisa. The story goes that the Pisans, wanting to
borrow money from Lucca, left it with the city as a guarantee. On the day that the Pisans returned to pay
the loan back the people of Lucca had set all the clocks in the city forward by
two hours, argued that the Pisans were late in paying and refused to return the
cross.
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