Just a "thank you" for excellent service and arrangements throughout our trip to Florence. Couldn't have been better.
Because we're seasoned travellers in Italy, we knew that it would be...
Dear Mr Blair,
Thank you for your letter, received this morning, welcoming us back from our visit to the opera and Paris.
Everything went very well. The hotel was perfectly...
Descended from a family of musicians, Puccini was the most important Italian opera composer in the generation after Verdi. He was born and educated in Lucca, later studying under Ponchielli at the Milan Conservatory. A musical dramatist of considerable power, he wrote in all twelve operas, the last, Turandot, still unfinished at the time of his death in 1924.