In May 1815, Rossini moved to Naples to become director of music for the royal theatres, among which the Teatro di San Carlo, the city's most important opera house. Rossini's residence in Naples was in the Barbaja villa on via Toledo (via Roma). Rossini served in Naples for seven years. During this time, he created some of his best-known works, such as "The Barber of Seville". (Link)

Rossini moved to Venice when he was 18. "Rossini's first opera to be staged was "La cambiale di matrimonio", a one-act comedy, given at the small Teatro San Moisè in November 1810." He composed three more pieces for the theatre. Rossini's first opera seria, "Tancredi", was shown at the La Fenice opera house. (Wikipedia)

Rossini composed his opera "The Barber of Seville" for the Teatro Argentina in Rome, where it premiered on 20 February 1816. (Wikipedia)

In 1822, Rossini went to Vienna with the opera company. "Rossini received a hero's welcome; his biographers describe it as "unprecedentedly feverish enthusiasm", "Rossini fever", and "near hysteria"." During his stay in Vienna, Rossini also managed to meet Beethoven. (Wikipedia)

"In 1856, while staying in the [Former Hotel Adam Hailmann in Bad Kissingen], Gioacchino Rossini began to compose again after a 27-year break. Documents (...) exemplify the intense preoccupation with his late work, the "Péchés de vieillesse" (Sins of Old Age) and the "Petite messe solennelle" (little solemn mass). Rossini was impressed by the music played in a spa; it was the first time he heard music by Richard Wagner in concert." (Nomination file, p. 245)

The church of Santa Croce houses the tomb of Rossini. (Wikipedia)

Teatro Comunale: "The theatre is noted for staging the premiere of an early opera written by Gioacchino Rossini at the age of twenty, "Ciro in Babilonia" in March 1812." (Wikipedia)