formed company CTT Nord in 2012. VaiBus was part of ONE Scarl the consortium holder of the two-year (2018-2019) contract for the management of the TPL throughout the Region. Since 1 November 2021 the public local transport is managed by Autolinee Toscane. Notable people St. Anselm of Lucca, (1036–1086), the bishop of Lucca Giovanni Arnolfini, a merchant and patron of the arts Pompeo Batoni, painter Giovanni Antonio Bianchi (1686–1768), an Italian minor friar, theologian, and Tuscan poet Simone Bianchi, comics artist Luigi Boccherini, musician and composer Elisa Bonaparte, ruler of Lucca Anthony Bonvisi, merchant and banker in London Giulio Carmassi, composer Castruccio Castracani, ruler of Lucca (1316–1328) Alfredo Catalani, composer Gusmano Cesaretti, photographer and artist Mario Cipollini, cyclist Alfredo Ciucci, football player Matteo Civitali, sculptor Ivan Della Mea, singer-songwriter Theodoric Borgognoni, medieval surgeon Marco Antonio Franciotti, bishop of Lucca Ernesto Filippi, football referee Saint Frediano St. Gemma Galgani, mystic and saint Francesco Geminiani, musician and composer Giovanni Battista Giusti, harpsichord maker Gioseffo Guami, composer Leo I, saint Pope Lucius III Vincenzo Lunardi, an aeronautical pioneer aeronaut Ludovico Marracci, priest and first translator of the Qur'an into Latin Felice Matteucci, engineer Mazzino Montinari, germanicist and Nietzsche scholar Italo Meschi, harp guitarist, poet, anarchist-pacifist Julian Niccolini, restaurateur Leo Nomellini, athlete Mario Pannunzio, journalist and politician Marcello Pera, politician and philosopher Giacomo Puccini, composer Eros Riccio, chess player Marco Rossi, footballer Daniele Rugani, footballer Renato Salvatori, actor Carlo Sforza, diplomat and politician Rinaldo and Ezilda Torre, founded the Torani syrup company in San Francisco using Luccan recipes from their hometown Nicola Fanucchi, actor and director Rolando Ugolini, athlete Giuseppe Ungaretti, poet Antonio Vallisneri, scientist and physician Alfredo Volpi, painter Hugh of Lucca, medieval surgeon Saint Zita Sister cities Lucca is twinned with: Abingdon, England, United Kingdom Colmar, France Gorinchem, The Netherlands Hämeenlinna, Finland Schongau, Germany Sint-Niklaas, Belgium South San Francisco, United States See also Castruccio Castracani Duchy of Lucca Republic of Lucca Walls of Lucca Footnotes Bibliography External links Municipality website National Museum of Villa Guinigi Museum of Villa Mansi Lu.C.C.A. Museum of the Archaeology of the Lucca Cathedral Cities and towns in Tuscany Fortified settlements Roman sites of Tuscany Capitals of former nations Populated places established in the 3rd century BC