http://www.barganews.com/blogs/daily_images tradition and change in a small community Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:07:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.barganews.com/blogs/daily_images/2007/01/01/1st-january/#comment-5 Daily Images 2007 at barganews Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:08:36 +0000 http://www.barganews.com/blogs/daily_images/2007/01/01/1st-january/#comment-5 [...] [...] [...] [...]

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]]> http://www.barganews.com/blogs/daily_images/2007/10/07/7th-october/#comment-3 Shrinking sunlight in the piazzas of Barga Vecchia at barganews Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:38:10 +0000 http://www.barganews.com/blogs/daily_images/2007/10/07/7th-october/#comment-3 [...] As we move into the second fortnight in October the seasons changes start to become steadily more apparent in and around Barga. On the mountainside around the city the trees are gradually moving through the scales of colours from green through to red (check out Daily Images from last week) In the city itself the sun filled piazzas of the summer are now gradually shrinking in size as the sun rises much lower in the sky and the shadows grow longer. Piazza Angelio will manage to keep an area sunlight right through the winter but for Piazza Salvo Santi, the main square outside Palazzo Pancrazi, the sunlit area is now just a small area of heat and light where people now crowd into to enjoy the autumn sun during the mornings. Somebody this morning remembered Archimedes and the siege of Syracuse and came up with the idea of using mirrors to bounce some of that light across the piazza and into Aristo's bar to warm up the chilly air.  [...] [...] As we move into the second fortnight in October the seasons changes start to become steadily more apparent in and around Barga. On the mountainside around the city the trees are gradually moving through the scales of colours from green through to red (check out Daily Images from last week) In the city itself the sun filled piazzas of the summer are now gradually shrinking in size as the sun rises much lower in the sky and the shadows grow longer. Piazza Angelio will manage to keep an area sunlight right through the winter but for Piazza Salvo Santi, the main square outside Palazzo Pancrazi, the sunlit area is now just a small area of heat and light where people now crowd into to enjoy the autumn sun during the mornings. Somebody this morning remembered Archimedes and the siege of Syracuse and came up with the idea of using mirrors to bounce some of that light across the piazza and into Aristo's bar to warm up the chilly air.  [...]

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