Puccini Museum in Celle di Pescaglia

The Puccini family originates from Celle, a small village in the Serchio Valley. The house, where the ancestors lived and where Puccini spent a few summers as a child, is now a museum. Entering the large entrance hall, one immediately feels immersed in history: the large Puccini family tree and the portraits of the ancestors (Giacomo Sr., Antonio, and Domenico) on the left wall transport us back in time and give us the precise feeling of being in the place where a long story began.

The Puccini family kitchen in Celle dei Puccini. A bright, simply furnished room with a set table, a built-in wood-burning stove, a large fireplace with a cauldron, a wooden plate rack, and a stone sink under the window.

Contact us

STREET ADDRESS: Via Meletoli, Celle dei Puccini - Pescaglia

PHONE: +39 320 6077784

E-MAIL: info@museodicelledeipuccini.it

WEBSITE: www.museodicelledeipuccini.it

Immediately after the visitor's gaze is drawn to a piano, the one on which Puccini composed part of Butterfly; above, hanging on the wall, is the laurel wreath that Giacomo brought to the bedside of his dying mother and which had been given to him after the success of his first opera, Le Villi, which premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan on 31 May 1884.

In the hall, where Giacomo Puccini's favorite armchair and the gramophone donated to him by Thomas Alva Edison are displayed among other precious memorabilia, a themed exhibition is set up every spring and summer.

Puccini itineraries: Giacomo Puccini's ancestors were born in Celle Puccini, a village in the Pescaglia district, and it was here that the family's properties and mementos remained, and it was the place where the Puccinis spent their holidays. The house, which Giacomo's mother was forced to sell after her husband's death, was purchased by the husband of one of the Puccini sisters, Ramelde, and remained in the family until the 70s.

Giacomo was very attached to this land, and so he wrote to his sister Ramelde: “the solitude is excessive, the leaf beds are uncomfortable, there is no telegraph, but the middle way, Segorta, Concellesi, lo Spicchio, Nali, are melodious names that will not be forgotten”.

(IMG U. Conti)