Montecatini Terme was the second home of the famous Neapolitan composer Ruggero Leoncavallo, author of the opera “Pagliacci.”
Here he spent the last years of his life, finding inspiration for new compositions and actively contributing to the city’s cultural life.
Leoncavallo House
On Giannini Street still stands the small villa where Leoncavallo lived and died in 1919. The building, which is now privately owned and cannot be visited, is known as Casa Leoncavallo and is a symbolic place of the bond between the artist and the city.
Today, the villa is privately owned and not accessible to the public.
A memory that lives on
Montecatini wanted to honor the composer’s memory by also dedicating a street to him, a tangible sign of the deep affection the city still has for one of the leading figures in its cultural history.
