The ever present Lake Angels in Barga are starting to make themselves known and felt outside the walls of the city. On the 25th April they have organised an event in Sommocolonia, the small village overlooking the city. As you can hear in the interview recorded today with Mario Milano, the spokesman for the group, they will be promoting the local cheese and wine makers of the area.
The Angels have been interested in the local food culture with a series of events going back over the years including just recently in 2011, the best traditional castagnaccio – the classic sweet dish from this area made from chestnut flour (article here)
In 2009, they were involved in cooking and preparing Polenta which is made with ground yellow or white cornmeal, ground maize (article here ).
In 2009, they were interested in the wild mushroom Grifola frondosa, known in this area as the Grifone (article here)
And way back in 2007 they were all in Piazza Angelio busily preparing sausages (article here) and the Biroldo which is made from all of the parts of the pig which cannot be used for ham, joints, or in sausage making ….. in short – all of the scrap bits which are then boiled up in the blood. (article here)
All of the Lake Angels article that have appeared on this site over the years can be seen here
25th April Liberation Day
The 25th April is the day that Italy commemorates the liberation of the country by Allied troops in the Second World War. The holiday is meant to honour all those who died during the war, from soldiers fighting overseas to civilian victims of Allied bombings and atrocities committed during Nazi Germany’s bitter retreat from its former allies territory. The lives of those who served as partisans in the Italian Resistance are especially honoured.
Liberation Day 2009 – article here – 2010 here
Click on the link below to listen to Natale Bertolini reminiscing (in Italiano) about just how life was like in Barga on the first Liberation Day, 67 years ago.
* è possibile visitare anche il piccolo Museo della memoria…gestito dalla Associazione Ricreativa sommocolonia