To live and breathe opera and discover the places that inspired such immortal music, head from Bagni di Pisa to the Puccini Opera Festival. ​

There is a special bond between Tuscany and opera: it’s the home of Maestro Puccini, where his immortal melodies were born. And there’s a special bond between Bagni di Pisa, art and music: it has played host to Vittorio Alfieri, Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley, Carlo Goldoni, and modern-day rock and opera stars. ​

​This year, Italy is putting forward opera singing as a candidate for UNESCO Intangible Heritage: a treasure for humanity that we can listen to, but never own. At Bagni di Pisa, art and history’s great artists may be an intangible legacy, but you can always sense them all around you. ​

The Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago is the most important opera festival in the rich cultural life of Tuscany, the only one in the world dedicated to the composer Giacomo Puccini which takes place every summer, in the months of July and August, precisely in the places that inspired Maestro Puccini for his immortal melodies.​

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