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VIA DI SOLCO VIA GUGLIELMO MARCONI VIA GIANNETTI VIA DI BORGO VIA DELLA FONTANA AND CONNECTING PASSAGEWAYS

(Itinerary n° 4)

The main routes for walking up to the Duomo begin just inside Porta Mancianella. These are: Via del Pretorio, and Via di Mezzo combined with Via della Speranza. The other street, Via di Solco, that also begins at Porta Mancianella goes along the western edge of the historic centre. If you turn left onto it at the beginning of Via di Mezzo it will eventually take you outside the centre onto the Avenue Guglielmo Marconi. The painter Cesare Puccinelli (1937-1989) lived on Via di Solco, and at various times in the year his house, which has a permanent collection of his works still held by the family, is opened to the public.

Cesare Puccinelli. "The invention of horses"

From this street there are three vicoli that lead back up to Via di Mezzo. The first two go by way of Piazza Santissima Annunziata, and the third, called Vicolo di Solco, goes up past the Bertacchi kitchen gardens and joins Via di Mezzo by the Differenti Theatre. At the point where Vicolo di Solco begins and Via di Solco goes off to join the Avenue, another vicolo leads up to Piazza Giannetti and to Via Gianetti which starts, a few metres away, at the Avenue Marconi and ends at the Via di Borgo. On this street is the Palazzo Gianetti which houses various council offices and the public library "Fratelli Rosselli", containing more than 30.000 books including an impressive collection for children.

Vincenzo Gonnella - Amphora with design in relief made with metal from the barrel of a cannon


In one of the rooms of the library there is a permanent collection of the works of the artisan and artist Vincenzo Gonnella (1901 - 1988), who was an expert in metal relief which he used to fashion vases, plates, vessels, trays and coins.

At the point where Via Giannetti meets Via di Borgo, you will find Volta dei Menchi, a charming covered space lying partly under the Palazzo that used to belong to the Menchi family, and partly under the Palazzo Pancrazi, where the Town Hall is located.

A corner of Volta dei Menchi.

This Volta (Vault) is often used as a flea market and during the Christmas period, as the setting for The Holy Manger. Three vicoli lead off from the other side. Two of them take you back to Via di Mezzo and the Piazza Garibaldi, while the third one slopes down to join Via della Fontana. This is the street that starts from the Avenue Marconi and ends up joining the Via di Mezzo just before the Porta Macchiaia. Along the way three passageways lead off from it, Vicolo della Fontana, Vicolo del Forno and Vicolo del Pozzo, all of which end up at Via di Mezzo near Piazza Garibaldi and Piazza del Sargentone. At the beginning of Vicolo del Pozzo you can find the remnants of an old Artesian well. The upper part of the well has been blocked with a huge block of stone and is used today as a planter. Many other similar wells once existed within the walls and were particularly useful during the many sieges that befell Barga in the first part of the last millennium.

The remains of an old Artesian well

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