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Torre del Lago (Tower of the Lake) is a town of almost 11,000 inhabitants, a frazione of the comune of Viareggio, in the province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy, between the Lake of Massaciuccoli and the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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The Festival Puccini, an annual opera festival which attracts around 40,000 attendees, is held in its open-air theatre, a short distance from Villa Puccini where the opera composer Giacomo Puccini lived and worked. He is buried in a small chapel inside the Villa.
The area of the village on the sea (Marina di Torre del Lago) is well known for being an important gay and gay-friendly summer resort of national and international appeal.[1]
It is served by Torre del Lago Puccini railway station.
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edit- ^ Buckley, Jonathan; Ellingham, Mark; Jepson, Tim (2003), The Rough Guide to Tuscany and Umbria, Umbria, Italy: Rough Guides, p. 58, ISBN 1-84353-055-4
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