This tall church stands in the old Roman Forum, where Caesar,
Pompey and Crassus held a fateful meeting in 56 BC. The best
Romanesque façade in Lucca, it towers above the spectator. The
interior is a little disappointing, apart from a brilliantly
coloured altarpiece by Filippino Lippi in the right transept.
Puccini was a choirboy in this church and his birth-place is
just off the piazza.
