Supercentenarian Profile

Auretta Franceschi

Born:

1915-08-01

Lucca, Tuscany

Italy

Current Residence:

Viareggio, Tuscany

Italy

Auretta Franceschi is an Italian supercentenarian.

BIOGRAPHY

Auretta Franceschi was born in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy, on 1 August 1915.

She worked as a midwife. After graduating in Pisa in 1942, she traveled to Zagreb (in present-day Croatia) to work as a refugee in what was then Yugoslavia. Ten years later, after obtaining her condotta (license to practice), she returned to Tuscany, where she remained until 1980. That year, having purchased a house on the same main street where she had spent her childhood, she chose to return to Viareggio.