Il Gelso. La tua vacanza in Toscana. Your bvacation/b in Tuscany ... This area offers a wide range of attractions and is half an hour drive from bAbetone/b, Viareggio and Versilia, only 25 km away from Lucca, one can benefit from a mountain and seaside climate. It has been known since ancient times and had been visited by poets and writers, such as Byron, Shelley, Montale, Dumas, Heine, Lamartine and Ouida, the great Paganini and among the European nobility, Napoleon and his ...