This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here.
While the Puccini museum in Lucca is in the composer’s childhood home, this villa-turned-museum in Torre del Lago is where Puccini spent his adulthood. His son Antonio turned the home into a museum in 1925, and the furnishings, ambiance and artifacts have remained the same since, giving visitors an authentic look into Puccini’s life. The composer died in 1924 and is buried in the chapel on site, in a mausoleum specially built for him and his family members (his wife and son, who died after him, are also buried there). The museum is open daily from. from April to October, with adjusted hours in the off season. For more information, visit www.giacomopuccini.it/en/villa-puccini