Viareggio is a town on the coast north of Tuscany. With more than 63,000 inhabitants is the main town of the province of Lucca and the Versilia coast and is known not only for a massive presence of tourists in summer, for Carnival (born 1873) and its papier-mache floats ( since 1925), who parade along the "walk" at sea, in the period before Easter. Symbol of the Carnival of Viareggio and mask official Burlamacco, conceived and designed in 1930 by Uberto Bonetti. Viareggio is also an active industrial and manufacturing center, especially in shipbuilding, long known throughout the world, as well as for fishing and floriculture. Since [URL] http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viareggio [/ URL]