Every year, in October-November Lucca host popular international comics fair, Lucca Comics. It is festival with artists, collectors and exhibitors from all over the world.

Lucca, a town in Tuscany, is famous as a town rich of art, culture and history and, since 1966, it has become one of the main events in the world of Comics, with the most spectacular happening in Italy in the field of visual communication.

Around 400 exhibitors from all over the world, spread out over 16,000 square meters of covered area, in important buildings in the historic centre of Lucca, meetings and discussions, innumerable new publications, meeting with the many authors who take part in the exhibition, more than 300 accredited journalists and more than 65,000 visitors - these are the current statistics for Lucca Comics & Games, statistics that have made Lucca a must for cartoonists, game writers, publishers, scholars, opinion leaders and fans.

This is a very important event for organizer and they have decided to celebrate it in a revolutionary way by leaving the old site of the convention center in Via delle Tagliate and returning to the heart of the city where it all began 40 years ago.

For the 2008 Convention, Lucca will once again welcome the world of Comics and Games, with the lovely spacious piazzas in its wonderful old town centre and the atmospheric grassy area outside the Walls being used as sites for the tents for our exhibition-market. This year, thanks to the runaway success of the most recent Shows, these will occupy a total surface area of more than 15,000 m².

The streets of Lucca will be perfect “corridors” for this large, well-organized Fair, a peaceful, enchanting area with dozens of cafes, restaurants, pizzerias, cash machines, shops, banks, public toilets, relaxation areas, and areas for music and as well as plenty of properly equipped places for meetings, exhibitions, events and round tables, such as halls, cinemas, theatres, exhibition spaces and the Italian Museum of Comics and Images.

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• Lucca Comics