Villa Puccini - one of the most popular tourist attractions located in the vicinity of the resort town of Viareggio in Tuscany. After the death of the great composer Giacomo Puccini in 1924, the year of his villa in the town of Torre del Lago was turned into a museum dedicated to the life of the famous Italian. Inside you can see a huge room with a piano, for which the composer was sitting and which composed his famous works, as well as a collection of paintings donated by artists and his friends. Composer special passion was hunting, and this is also reflected in the villa - you can see his collection of weapons and hunting trophies. On the first floor are exposed skins of animals collected Puccini during his hunting expeditions.

Once having visited the small town of Torre del Lago on Lake Massaciuccoli, Giacomo Puccini's ever fallen in love with the place and decided to settle here. In 1891 he bought an old house and the tower instructed the architect Luigi De Servi, and Pliny Nomellini and engineer Giuseppe Puchchinelli restore the structure. They turned the old building into a beautiful two-storey villa in the Art Nouveau style with simple and clear shapes. Around the villa was laid out an English garden, to get into that today it is possible through the bay window of glass and iron. Inside the villa kept working fireplace Galileo Chini, furniture made in factories Bugatti and Tiffany, coffered ceiling of red, gold and blue, and the very piano Foster. On the ground floor there is a small chapel, which in 1926 was buried Puccini.

I must say that the beauty of the Riviera Versaliyskoy and cozy atmosphere in the region attracted by the lake Massaciuccoli than one famous family. Next to Villa Puccini is Orlando Villa, built in 1869, the year in neo-Gothic style with pointed arches and a slate roof. On the other side of the lake, in the town Pyadzhetta located Villa Ginori, built in the 19-20 th centuries. Today, both houses are privately owned and closed to the public.