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Farmholidays Restaurants  Inhabitants in 1991: 87.100  The
territory of Lucca extends for 185,53 square kilometres,
occupying for the most part a vast alluvial plain formed by the
Serchio, between the southern offshoot of the Apuane Alps, the
Pistoia Apennine to the north and Monte Pisano to the south. It
reached its present day aspect in 1884, when an area of the
territory belonging to the Borgo a Mossano was aggregated to it
and at the same time losing some land to the advantage of
Capannori.  Probably founded by the people of Liguria, who made
it their southern outpost, Lucca would have subsequently
suffered the influence – if not the dominance. – of the
Etruscans, and then become a “Municipium Romano” (89 B.C.).
Certainly, in its early development it benefited from its
position of important road junction at the crossroad between the
Cassia, the Clodia and the Aemilia Scauria. The importance of
the city grew however in the Longobardo era, when it be