If you drive along the principal road of Lajatico, you will see a tractor dealer named Bocelli and a restaurant bearing the same name – offering clues about the village’s most famous product, Andrea Bocelli.
It’s here that the tenor returns each July to stage a concert in an open-air amphitheater, the Teatro del Silenzio, with a guest list that almost always features household names.
Lajatico stands on a hill above the river Era, and began life as an Etruscan settlement and, later, a Roman village.
It was intended to guard the road to the copper mines of Montecatini and is considered one of the most important examples of early medieval architecture in Tuscany.
