Hotel Puccini Lucca

... a while but the churches don't seem to follow that trend. So Mom and I went to a classical music show in Lucca too, their hometown guy Puccini, this year is 150th anniversary of his birth he died in the 1920's. So we saw lots of Puccini and also some ...

We got kulchaed!!!  We went to a Puccini concert in Lucca!!  And there was some Mozart too!  How posh are we?!?!  Not as posh, however, as some of the people there who seemed to mistake it for a full on opera performance and dressed ...

... favorite. Di Simo has been in Lucca since 1846, and was a favorite place to go for Giacomo Puccini, the Luccan opera composer famous for "Madame Butterfly". As we make our way back down Via Fillungo, ...

... the car around to the Via Elisa entrance, where we had parked on the first day we had visited Lucca, and walked down Via Elisa, took Ches's photograph with Puccini on the way ,and we located the internet caffe we hadn't used last week. After two major ...

... for two things: it's huge medieval and then renaissance wall that still encircles the city and being the birthplace of Puccini. Both are celebrated liberally here. I also walk around appreciating the fact that this town gave us another person of greatness ...