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12/17/2011 3:03 pm

Scottish Diaspora Tapestry: pronto il primo pannello

Finalmente è pronto, completo in ogni sua parte, perfettamente ricamato. Parliamo del “Tapestry”, il primo pannello di quel grande ricamo proposto dal Preston Grange Art Festival di Prestonpans che Barga ha realizzato grazie alla buona volontà di tante signore della zona. Come più volte raccontato,...

12/09/2011 1:36 pm

Barga family trading for 5 generations in Scotland

Trading for five generations – Joe Cardosi, was born in 1885 in Barga, Tuscany, Italy, and moved to Caithness, Scotland in 1910. Together with his brother he had the Bay Café in Swanson Street, Thurso. In the 1930s Joe took over what is now Caffe Cardosi. Joe’s son, Andrew, came back to Scotland...

11/02/2011 10:41 am

In Scozia presentato il libro sul Duomo

Così come avevamo annunciato su questo sito, con l’ottima organizzazione della Lucchesia Viaggi di Barga, l’Associazione Polisportiva Valdilago di Barga e il Comune di Barga si sono recati dal 26 al 29 ottobre 2011 a Irvine in Scozia per la presentazione della pubblicazione in inglese del libro...

10/17/2011 4:27 pm

Il libro sul Duomo di Barga approda in Scozia

L’Associazione Polisportiva Valdilago Barga e il Comune di Barga da mercoledì 26 sino al 29 ottobre saranno assieme in Scozia, precisamente ad Irvine, per la presentazione del libro tradotto in inglese “Il Duomo di Barga, storia, arte e spiritualità nei primi tre secoli dopo il Mille”, “The...

10/03/2011 12:09 am

Barga on the BBC once again

Duncan Kennedy and a film troupe from the BBC were in Barga recently following up on the continuing story of the Barga – Scotland connection. Those interviewed included Paolo Gas in his bar on the Fosso, Ron Gauld at Casa Fonatana and Emma Morton the singer from Emma e gli Aristodemo’s who...

09/28/2011 11:35 pm

A poem for Barga – Janis Mackay

The writer and storyteller, Janis Mackay was visiting Barga this week but before she returned to her native Scotland she left a gift for the readers of giornaledibarganews – a short poem dedicated to Barga and its inhabitants. Janis Mackay was born and grew up in Edinburgh, but moved to London...

07/02/2011 2:57 pm

Heart of Midlothian Football Club in Ciocco

The Hearts football team have just spent a week at Ciocco for pre-season training using the facilities at the hotel for what the Heart’s boss, Jim Jefferies maintains is his favourite summer training base. This is after all, his tenth annual trip to Barga. Heart of Midlothian Football Club (more...

06/21/2011 4:08 pm

Barga Ice Cream café – Riverside Museum of Transport and Travel, Glasgow

The wait was finally over and today thousands of people flocked into the new Riverside Museum in Glasgow Scotland as it opened its doors to the public. Glasgow’s new £74million Riverside Museum was officially opened today in the style of a Clyde ship launch. Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson...

06/21/2011 10:28 am

A Barga arriva Music in Tuscany, masterclass e musica dalla Scozia

Music in Tuscany è un programma estivo di lezioni e concerti progettati su misura per gruppi vari di musica da camera, dal duo al quintetto che vede la collaborazione del nostro Comune, del consolato onorario di Glasgow e dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Edimburgo, e poi vedremo perché, e della...

05/24/2011 2:58 pm

Scottish wedding on the terrrace of Palazzo Pancrazi

The third week in May, bright sunshine, swallows diving around the terracotta tiles roofs of Barga Vecchia and even a slight breeze, every now and again, just to cool things down slightly. In the distance, La Pania and the mountains which beckon and reminded us that the Mediterranean...

05/21/2011 3:21 pm

2nd National Celtic Supporters Club meeting in Barga

They came into the city from Udine and Rome and this time they were not met by the DIGOS – the secret police who last year had heard that football supporters were converging on Barga and so turned up first to check just what was going on – this weekend the 2nd National Celtic Supporters Club...

04/29/2011 1:55 pm

Chance meeting on the beach in Scotland

A chance meeting on a beach in Scotland, once again shows just how small is this world as Paolo Marroni from Barga was walking along the Portobello in Edinburgh with his son Gianmarco and girlfriend, Jaqueline and he thought he saw a figure which he recognised… upon going closer it turns out to...

04/13/2011 7:00 am

Barga appears in April Easyjet inflight magazine

The April edition of the Easyjet inflight magazine carries an article about the Scottish connection in Barga. The article, written by Sarah Lane starts by saying that, “at first glance, Barga looks like any other pretty medieval Tuscan hill town. It’s got it all: the white-stone cathedral,...

04/08/2011 12:55 pm

Scottish twinning school in Barga

Seventeen students with three of their teachers were in Barga this week from the St Gabriels Primary School (their site is here) in Scotland as part of the continuing twinning process that has been going on successfully for the past few years between Barga and East Lothian. They were received in the...

03/08/2011 9:10 am

Piccolo Mondo – Tony and Giuliana Pierotti – UK restaurant prize

A FAMILY-run Italian restaurant in Glasgow has been named among a host of Michelin starred eateries as one of the best in Britain in a poll which saw Scotland claim three of the top 10 places. Piccolo Mondo, on Argyle Street, in Glasgow, was second only to Restaurant Martin Wishart in Leith in the...

01/02/2011 7:59 am

Hamish Moore – Aspettare e Sperare !

Barganews is and has been such a life force, an integral and intimate part of Barga, that since hearing the news of it’s imminent changes I have had to remind myself that Barga will still actually continue to be there after the metamorphosis, whatever form this will take. Through Barganews, the visionary...

12/28/2010 12:33 am

One Sunday in the Year – the shifting of a dragon

As regular readers will shortly find out there are some earth shaking changes just about to happen to barganews, more of which will become self-evident in the New Year but as we enter the final week of 2010, there are still one or two loose ends which need to be tied up, desks cleared and cupboards...

05/11/2010 12:16 am

Scottish painting school in Barga

In 2008 the Prestonpans Community Centre in Scotland was host to an exhibition entitled “Barga”. The ongoing twinning between the city of Barga and East Lothian in Scotland which had so far involved mainly politicians and schoolchildren (article here) took another step forward that year when...

05/08/2010 4:02 pm

John Muir Award in Barga

Before moving here last June to work for the East Lothian-Barga Twinning Project as part of my ‘year abroad programme’ at Edinburgh university, I made a visit to Longniddry Primary School which is twinned with Barga Elementare. (twinning ceremony here) I met with the head teacher, Catherine Jack,...

04/30/2010 4:16 pm

Scottish links renewed with art

A frequent visitor to Barga and one who has often featured on these pages, the ex Lord Provost of Glasgow, Alex Mosson was in Barga this week along with the Glasgow City councillor and Chairman of the Glasgow Licensing Board, Stephen Dornan for an un- official visit but bearing a very official message...