PRESENTATION                                

The founder and promoter of the Association is Simonetta Puccini, the artist's granddaughter  and only heir,

as well as onwing the house where Giacomo Puccini was born in Lucca and the villa at Torre del Lago.

She herself constituted the Association on 18th October 1996. Its office is located at:

12 Piazza Puccini   55049 Viareggio   Italy         Phone and fax number  0039 0 584 341445

Officially inaugurated at the Alice Tully Hall in New York on the occasion of the celebration organised for the centenary of "La Bohème", the Association reunite under a single administrative body the composer's three main houses in Tuscany.

Torre del Lago, Belvedere Puccini
Viareggio, piazza Puccini
Lucca, via di Poggio

The Association is a non-profit organisation with purely cultural objectives and in at present awaiting official recognition as a moral body.