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11/20/2011 10:21 pm

Mondine, music, sausages and Christmas decorations?

Mondine, music, sausages and Christmas decorations – now what kind of title to an article is that ? The regulars of Aristo’s bar in Barga Vecchia during the autumn months sit outside the bar in the piazza and roast chestnuts 2 or 3 times a year. It is a time for all the families to get together...

11/20/2011 5:10 pm

San Frediano a Sommocolonia

Sommocolonia in festa oggi per il suo santo patrono, San Frediano, al quale è intitolata la chiesa del paese. Alle 10.30 è stata officiata una santa messa dal proposto don Stefano Serafini, poi la festa è proseguita nei locali del comitato paesano con un robusto pranzo al quale hanno preso parte tanti...

11/15/2011 12:03 am

Roast chestnuts and live music at Aristos

The regulars of Aristo’s bar in Barga Vecchia normally during the autumn months sit outside the bar in the piazza and roast chestnuts 2 or 3 times a year. It is a time for all the families to get together and join in preparing the nuts and fire, and then roasting and eating the chestnuts around...

10/30/2011 9:08 pm

A.S Barga – Festa della Castagna

The Festa della Castagna, the chestnut festa organised each year by AS Barga opened up for business this afternoon on the Fosso just outside the main walls in Barga Vechhia. Let’s hope that the chestnut roasting season this year is a bit more easier for the AS Barga than it was last year. If people...

11/23/2010 1:20 am

Accordion, red wine, castagnaccio and mondine

Just last week we published an article bemoaning the fact that November is gradually becoming one of the worst months of the year for services in Barga Vecchia (article here) In the article we talked in negative terms about how in the height of the summer season, it is not really a problem finding...

11/02/2009 3:12 am

Necci, mondine and vin brulè

Necci, mondine and vin brulè on the Fosso this afternoon thanks to the sterling work of the A.S. Barga who every year at this time set up their stall, kitchens and fires and fill the autumn air with the smell of roasting chestnuts. As they are roasting for a large amount of people they have a different...

10/27/2008 1:20 am

Ballotte – boiled chestnuts at Aristo's

The humble sweet chestnut has been an important ingredient in the Mediterranean diet – Homer mentions them, and Pliny even says which kinds were grown in Southern Italy. With time their cultivation spread throughout the peninsula, because they were one of the few food crops that could be grown...