Viale Verdi is the real Art Nouveau centre of Montecatini. Don’t miss the Palazzina Regia, summer home of the Grand Duke Leopoldo, the lovely soldiers’ monument by Giuseppe Petroni and, inside the Palazzo communale (built in 1913), the Joan Mirò painting Woman Encircled by the Flight of a Bird. Also worth a look is the large bronze statue of Giacomo Puccini seated on a bench with cigar and baton, a work donated to the town in honour of Italian culture by the artist Aidyn Zeinalov.