If you come from Lucca
You have to find your way (ask for directions locally) to the National Road n° 12 going North to Modena, Verona, Brenner Pass. You stay on that Road following directions “Modena – Pavullo”. From Lucca it takes about 100 km and roughly 2 hours to reach the Ducal Stables. Road N° 12 is rather narrow and with lots of curves.
Some 8 km after you have driven through Lama Mocogno you will see signs Piantacroce and and later Querciagrossa. You have arrived in the Municipality of Pavullo. It takes 2 more km after Querciagrossa to arrive to the centre of Pavullo. You first encounter a roundabout, then a traffic light. You keep on the main road towards Modena ignoring signs for City Centre to your right. After three more traffic lights you leave the centre of Pavullo behind you and the road goes for a short stretch inside a pine forest. You proceed for some 400 mt after the last traffic light and you see on your right (no signs: pay attention!) the deviation for centre of Pavullo for traffic coming from the North. You make a sharp right (almost a U turn) at that deviation.
After just 100 meters you take a road to your left (via Virgilio) which climbs rather steeply uphill. On your right and your left you see a number of recent buildings. After a further 300 meters the road makes a U turn to the right and 200 meters later a 90° turn to the left. From there on you always go uphill. When on your right you see the sign “Parco Ducale” and a small fountain you will see farther ahead a road that climbs rather steeply with a sign of “no through traffic”. You proceed along that road. You first have two villas on each side of the road, then woods on your right. At the first turn to the right you will see on your left a large red building and the upper part of a stone building: those are the Ducal Stables. 300 more meters and you have reached your destination.
If you get lost, ask directions for “Casa Scarino”. That has been for more than a century the name given to the very small “borgo” where the Ducal Stables are located.