Parco Naturale Migliarino San Rossore Massaciuccoli

This guide to Parco Naturale Migliarino San Rossore Massaciuccoli near Pisa opens with a puzzle: why did Giacomo Puccini, who built his career on this marsh's silence, later order twelve of his own pine trees cut down? It follows Puccini's arrival at Torre del Lago in eighteen ninety-one, the villa he built once Manon Lescaut and La Boheme made him rich, and three decades spent composing Tosca, Madama Butterfly and more between long hours hunting coots and snipe from a jetty he built himself. You will hear about the Club of the Bohemians, the circle of local painters and musicians he helped found half in jest. Stand among the reeds and umbrella pines still ringing Lake Massaciuccoli.