Bit by bit the face of Barga Vecchia is being changed. It has been a gradual process over the last couple of years but recently the speed has been picking up as more and more of the house and centuries old palazzi are renovated and new colours are brightening up the whole city….. well, actually not new colours according to the Architect Massimiliano Lanciani who has been overseeing the work on many of the palazzi.
He insists that the colours now being seen in Barga Vecchia are in fact very representative of the original colours and designs that were already in place but which have since faded or darkened with age. He claims to have put them back to their original splendour.
This does somewhat beg the question; just when were the original colours painted ? Right when the palazzo was first built ? or at another point during its 500 years? In January of last year Architect Lanciani and the specialist decorator Luciano Zanella were working on this palazzo (article here) Also that year emergency work was started on Palazzo Balduini in Via di Mezzo in Barga Vecchia. (article here) The Palazzo in front of Casa Cordati had for some time been shedding parts of its plaster facing into the street below. Complete renovation is now underway and speculation is now mounting as to just what will be the final new colours of the building.