Back in May of this year we published an article entitled “Piazza Garibaldi loses one of its historic trees” in which it said – The sound of a chain saw buzzing in the piazza this morning brought out a few inquisitive residents of Barga Vechia and it was a sad sight that greeted them as one of the historic trees in Piazza Garibaldi was being cut down and carted away.
As the statue of Garibaldi look impassively on, one of the residents in the piazza commented sadly that he had been there 50 years and he could always remember that tree standing there exactly as it was for all of those years and now it had gone.
A small space in the floor of the piazza was all that was left to show of a tree that had once flourished and provided much needed shadow in the summer months for the inhabitants and visitors to Barga Vecchia.
In fact the tree had probably been there a good deal longer as the black and white photograph from probably the late 20′s or early 30′s clearly shows the young tree already shading the seated men below it.
We finished the article with the following words:
Attention will now turn towards the remaining trees in the piazza to see if they too are healthy and do not represent a danger to passing visitors.
This morning the sound of the chainsaw was back in Piazza Garibaldi.
It appears that another tree is suffering from the same disease which killed the others and it too might have to be removed.
This morning it was trimmed but the chances of it giving shade in the piazza next summer are not looking good at the moment.