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Driving in Barga Vecchia

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Visitors to Barga are often overheard expressing their surprise at the way that the local drivers managed to manoeuvre and negotiate the extremely tight curves and bends to be found on the couple of narrow streets inside Barga Vecchia where it is still possible to reach by car – it has to be said, a small car at that. Driving a modern car in a mediaeval environment demands a high degree of skill, space awareness and hand to eye coordination. [...]

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03/26/2009 5:24 pm

Barga Musicians showing the way

Two of the musicians in Barga have been out strutting their stuff in front of new audiences and making a name of themselves, and of course for Barga . Andrea Guzzoletti and his trumpet have been in Miami Florida appearing at the annual Winter Music Conference. He is becoming something of a regular...

03/24/2009 2:26 am

Health and beauty centre re-opens in Barga

Job redundancies might be happening in some sectors of the economy but locally there are still some positive signs taking place as people adapt and change. This weekend in Piazzale Matteotti, Barga Giardino saw the re – opening of the Centro Estetico Jeunesse – the health and beauty centre...

03/21/2009 11:48 pm

"Natalino" – filming starts in Barga

As we have already published in an article last month (article here) there is a new name to add to the list of artists working in this area – the filmmaker,David Melani. His production company started work in Barga this weekend filming sections of his latest film “Natalino” The film...

03/13/2009 8:28 pm

Catching up on Daily Images

Most of the recent problems with the Internet connection here in Barga have now finally been sorted out and we are once again back in the saddle and riding hard. One of the casualties over this month has been the Daily Images section of barganews. The award winning photographer O’Connor has been...

11/21/2008 2:07 am

Barga business closes doors after 52 years

An emotional moment for Gino Popolani this morning as he put up a sign in his shop window telling his friends and customers that after 52 years of selling, installing and repairing radio TV and electrical goods in Barga that he has had to give in to stronger forces and at the end of the year he will...

09/05/2008 10:36 pm

barganews closed for "renovations"

As you will have already noticed the site has not been updated all this week and O’Connors Daily Images stopped being daily at the end of last month. A quick check of the archives (here) will show you just what a busy season it has been in Barga this year and just how busy all the members of...

08/18/2008 12:01 am

Green light for the Lake Angels in Rwanda

A telephone call from Rwanda this morning, has revealed that experts working in the area have located a water source suitable for the Lake Angels project in Rwanda 2008. It is all systems go for a pipeline of over 2 km to supply water to a school of 1500 pupils and water for 500 other people in the...

07/24/2008 11:30 pm

San Cristoforo Procession

Celebrations for St Christopher the Patron Saint of Barga which started today with the “San Cristoforo d’oro” awards ceremony (article here), continued this evening to its climax with a long torchlight procession through the streets of Barga up to the Duomo. (more…) Procession...

07/20/2008 6:07 pm

Palio di S. Cristoforo – Crossbow championship

Palio di S. Cristoforo – Campionato Regionale Tiro alla Balestra da Banco – Barga has a medieval feel today as the Contrada di San Paolino from Lucca organised the seventh bench crossbow regional championship. This morning outside the Duomo contestants in mediaeval costume were firing small...

07/09/2008 9:57 pm

Strauss in the doghouse

Another surprise concert this afternoon in Barga Vecchia – this time outside in the piazza in Piazza Salvi in front of Aristo’s bar. A fine evening for sitting down and listening to some classical music as the swallows dive around the Palazzo Pancrazi. The Giovane Orchestra Sonara featuring...

06/08/2008 6:04 pm

Gregorian Chant in the Duomo

“It’s supremely beautiful. It’s deeply spiritual,” said Scott McKee, 46, a member of the class of the Holy Apostles College and Seminary, Cromwell, Connecticut USA “There are people who listen to chant and are not Catholic, but they feel something in it that touches them.”...

05/25/2008 11:00 pm

Concert Fin Moore, Hamish Moore and Sarah Hoy

A concert this afternoon in Piazza Angelio of traditional Scottish music by Fin Moore and Sarah Moy. The couple have played recent concerts in New York, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, and Hong Kong and now Barga. They were invited here as guests of Hamish Moore, artist in residence 2008 and it is...

05/07/2008 12:25 pm

Mario Sartini in Piazza Angelio

For many people Piazza Angelio is quite simply the finest piazza in Barga Vecchia. With the historic palazzos, some dating back to the 1500s, facing on to the hand chiselled greystone piazza it has an elegant charm and gives first-time visitors to Barga that little shock of recognition when they realise...

04/19/2008 4:28 pm

La Boheme di Giacomo Puccini e Il signor Bruschino

Dopo il successo della “prima” la decisione del bis In scena venerdÃ¬ 18 aprile al Teatro dei Differenti (ore 21) il III e IV atto dell’opera La Boheme di Giacomo Puccini e Il signor Bruschino, opera in un atto di Gioacchino Rossigni, con gli studenti del Cardiff International...

04/15/2008 11:31 pm

BaccalÃ and beer at Aristo's

Aristo’s bar in Barga Vecchia is tiny – no more than a corridor really but it is the unofficial cultural centre of Barga where Aristodemo Casciani has ruled supreme for more years than he cares to remember. He recounts to all who listen that he was brought in the bar, then owned by his grandfather,...

04/15/2008 1:18 am

Election results in Barga

Silvio Berlusconi celebrated an election comeback triumph last night, putting him back in charge of the world’s seventh biggest economy for a third term as the centre-left failed to summon the unity to stop him. Mr Berlusconi told his “post-Fascist” partner and former deputy prime...

04/11/2008 12:37 am

Closing election campaign party for the Partito Democratico

This evening the Teatro dei Differenti in Barga Vecchia was crammed to the gills with the faithful as the Partito Democratico of Walter Veltroni brought their election campaign to a close with a noisy and exuberant final party. The proceedings started with a song … the National Anthem sung by...

10/17/2007 3:56 pm

Briscola – card game

We have reported in the past the card playing games taking place in Barga during the evenings (article here). That game was Buracco, but there is another card game that is played by many people in this area – the game of Briscola. This evening there was a briscola competition organised at La...