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Double cranes block main road
An unusual event in Barga this morning, lines of cars waiting at traffic lights in the main road through Barga Giardino. (Traffic lights are not usually part of the Barga street furniture) They were there to allow a large mobile crane to set up another crane which will no doubt be a constant feature of Barga Giardino over the coming months. The crane will be used to supply materials on building work now taking place on one houses in Barga that was damaged during the Second World war – does a 60 year wait seem excessive to you ?
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It also took 60 years to rebuild the houses destroyed by “eventi bellici” just beyond the Palazzo Pancrazi in Barga’s centro storico. Makes one think of the autostrada from Messina to Palermo (construction begun in the early 1950s and finally completed in 2005) or the Teatro Massimo in Palermo (closed for incidental repairs in 1964 that continued until its reopening in 2004). All Italians have some idea where the state construction funds went down there…hint: it rhymes with “rosa vostra.” Up here, the reasons would appear somewhat cloudier.