Introduction

This guide will accompany you throughout a more or less ideal itinerary. For various reasons many of the places mentioned are inaccessible also for not virtual visitor, so that it will be necessary to view certain buildings merely from the outside and then try to revisit them with the aid of the imagination. On the other hand, there are no less than three Puccini museums which can be visited, thanks to the fact that Giacomo Puccini had many dwellings.

English text by Julian Budden, plan and italian text by Gabriella Biagi Ravenni, with the collaboration of: Giulio Battelli, Julian Budden, Michele Girardi, Arthur Groos, Maurizio Pera, Dieter Schickling, and of Alessandra Belluomini Pucci, Riccardo Berutto, Elena Lazzarini.
Photography by Maria Ida Biggi.
These pages transfer into the web, in a larger version, texts and images printed in a brochure (conceived for tourists and/or lovers of Puccini's art) produced by Azienda di Promozione Turistica di Lucca and Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini. © CSGP 1998