Fillungo Street
Fillungo Street
Fillungo Street is the most important road of the historical centre and it is well-known, because there are the smartest and most refined shops. The elegant promenade is 700 metres long and 10 metres wide. The street coincides with an ancient Roman road.
Its name probably comes from “Fillongo” in Garfagnana, a domain of the Falabrina family, who lived in Fillungo street.
Guinigi Tower
The majestic 45-metre tall Guinigi Tower overlooks the city of Lucca; the austhere Roman-Gothic tower is softened by the hanging garden on the roof. From the top of the tower visitors can enjoy a wonderful view.
There are quite a few legends about the powerful Guinigi family, who commissioned the building: these legends involve ghosts, deep love between spouses and trees which suddenly lost all their leaves after Paolo Guinigi’s death, who probably had the idea of the hanging garden. Guinigi Tower is romantic and peculiar and is one of the main symbols of Lucca.
Comic strip 1
Pertini and the group of students walk down Fillungo street .
Comic strip 2
Pertini: Guys, do you know what liberty is?
Students: Yes.
Comic strip 3
Marco e Elena: Liberty means that you can do what you want.
Pertini: No, liberty means being autonomous and that no human being may be prosecuted or forced to do something on behalf of someone else.
Comic strip 4
Pertini: In the past lots of people fought for it. Liberty is very important in a human being’s life.
Marco: We understand. But who says that no human being can be prosecuted or detained?
Pertini: Dear pupils, according to the article 13 of our Constitution, personal liberty cannot be subjected to any restriction, except by order of the Judiciary stating a reason and only in such manner as provided by the law.
Art. 13 Cost.
Personal liberty is inviolable. No one may be detained, inspected, or searched nor otherwise subjected to any restriction of personal liberty except by order of the Judiciary stating a reason and only in such cases and in such manner as provided by the law. In exceptional circumstances and under such conditions of necessity and urgency as shall conclusively be defined by the law, the police may take provisional measures that shall be referred within 48 hours to the Judiciary for validation and which, in default of such validation in the following 48 hours, shall be revoked and considered null and void. Any act of physical and moral violence against a person subjected to restriction of personal liberty shall be punished. The law shall establish the maximum duration of preventive detention.