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Viareggio | The cat at the end of the road

Where the sea makes people work for a living

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Peter Benei
Apr 24, 2026
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The bike lane starts at the bottom of Lido di Camaiore and runs south along the coast for about eight kilometers before it hits the pier at Viareggio, and the thing it teaches you, if you ride it often enough, is that Viareggio is a city you should almost always see from the saddle of a bicycle and never, if you can help it, from the pavement. The pavem…

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