Imparerò Italiano: 2017 - The Vespa Museum

This adventure was offered by my Italian language school in Lucca and it sounded like a great way to learn more about one of Italy's icons; the Vespa motor scooter. More information on the museum is here: https://www.museopiaggio.it/en/

We first took the train to Pisa, then switched to another line that took us to Pontedera, home of the Piaggio Museum. See the map. The train system in Italy is fantastic! You can get to anywhere, from anywhere, in about an hour! Well, maybe it takes longer than that, but it's still a great system.

The following is borrowed from the museum's web site: "The Piaggio Museum was inaugurated in March 2000 and occupies the 3,000 square meters of the company’s former tool-shop in one of the oldest and most characteristic bodies of the industrial complex in Pontedera, where Piaggio started its production in the early nineteen twenties. The Museum was created to preserve and highlight the value of a historic legacy. The objective is to tell the history of Piaggio and through it the development of Italian industry, economy and society by exhibiting some of the company’s best known, most representative products and through the documents and images of its extensive archives."

Notice the fellow with the backpack below... Somehow we lost him at the train station, when going back to Lucca. We were forced to take a later train and just had to go to a local bar for some vino. A good way to handle the stress of the 30 minute delay!