Lonely Planet's 2017 Best in Travel guide has listed Pistoia as seventh top destination among cities after Bordeaux, Cape Town and Los Angeles. The Tuscan city has been named Italian Capital of Culture for next year. Top countries include Canada, Colombia and Finland and top regions Peru's Choquequirau, New Zealand's Taranaki and Portugal's the Azores.

Pistoia mayor Samuele Bertinelli commented by saying that "the naming of Pistoia among the ten top destinations to visit in 2017 by one of the most popular and prestigious tour guides launches the city into a dimension of extraordinary international visibility it had never before had."

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