Giacomo Puccini who was conferred honorary citizen of Viareggio in 1900, stayed in hotels and rented houses there on numerous occasions. In 1915 he bought some land with a view of the pine forest and a few years later he entrusted the job of projecting the villa to the architect Vincenzo Pilotti and to the engineer Federigo Severini who were both from Pisa. The Maestro moved to the villa in 1921 when the tranquillity of Torre del Lago was disturbed by the uproar provoked by the peatery.
(source: Alessandra Belluomini Pucci - Centro Studi Cultura Eclettica Liberty e Déco)