It started 10 years ago when the Legambiente in Italy started
to organise an annual cleaning event; Puliamo il mondo.
Last year there were more than 700,000 volunteers working
in 1700 comunes all over Italy on a mass clean up of the environment.
This year the Comune of Barga took part with the area around
Villa Gheradi as the center of operations. Children from the
elementary school equipped with gloves, hats and bags cleared
the area around the villa of rubbish and waste paper. They
were helped in their task by the Alpini, the men of ASBUC
(Amministrazione separata beni di uso civico) and even a representative
from Scotland in the kilted form of Hugh Macnaughton visiting
Barga for the first time with his wife Jacky.
The Alpini decided that the operation was such a success that
they will take the responsibility for keeping the land and
grass cut while the future of the villa is still undecided.
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