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Practicalities
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The
tourist office
is just below Piazza Garibaldi at Via Norma Parenti 22 (summer Mon-Sat 9am-12.30pm & 4-7.30pm, Sun 10am-1pm; winter Tues-Sat 10am-1pm; tel 0566.902.756,
www.amatur.it
). Massa's only central
hotel
is
Il Sole
, Via LibertA 43 (tel 0566.901.971, fax 0566.901.959; L90,000-120,000/a?¬46.48-61.98); otherwise go for the pleasant, refurbished
Duca del Mare
, just below town at Via Dante Alighieri 1 (tel 0566.902.284, fax 0566.901.905,
www.cometanet.it/ducadelmare
; L90,000-120,000/a?¬46.48-61.98). Better
restaurants
than those lining Piazza Garibaldi include the characterful
Osteria del Viaggiatore
, Via Norma Parenti 35 (tel 0566.902.093; closed Mon), with innovative, pricey takes on Tuscan staples, and
Il Gatto e La Volpe
, down the alley Vicolo Ciambellano (tel 0566.903.575; closed Mon), offering jugged hare, stuffed rabbit and wild boar.
Pizzeria Barbablu
, up at Piazza Matteotti 5, has excellent
pizza gialla
(a pizza base sprinkled with saffron, scamorza and parmesan cheeses, and rocket) and outside tables where you can watch your afternoon vanish as the hands on the Torre del Candeliere's eccentric clock scoot round twelve hours in a single hour. The
pub
A
Del Priore
, Via LibertA 34, has good beer and a blues jukebox.
Make time in summer for the
Toscana Foto Festival
(
web.tiscalinet.it/toscanafotofestival
), with photo exhibits and workshops at venues around town in late July, and a prestigious show of the cream of the crop running until late August. Other useful information
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