The Puccini Festival is a summer music festival held in Torre del Lago, where Giacomo Puccini lived for over thirty years, composing many of his masterpieces.

Born in 1930, it is held every summer, during the months of July and August, at the “Gran Teatro all’Aperto Giacomo Puccini”, a 3200-seat outdoor structure (also known as the “Teatro dei Quattromila”), located on the shores of the lake Massaciuccoli near the Villa Puccini, the house that the composer had built in 1900 and from which he moved moving to Viareggio in 1921 due to the pollution of the lake. The remains of the composer are kept in the villa and you can admire finds and relics of his personal life and his artistic career.