Torre del Lago | The town at the end of the road

Where Puccini came to hunt and everyone else came to be left alone

We learned about Torre del Lago from the Paspartú magazine, which I’d picked up in a café in Pietrasanta, the way you pick up a magazine when you’re new somewhere and still trying to figure out where you’ve landed, and the article that summer was about Puccini, because it was the centenary of his death and everyone along this coast was publishing someth…