Now we turn to Via di Borgo, which starts below at the Largo "Emilio Biondi", where the third gate to old Barga was situated until 1833, and then leads up the hill to the heart of the old town.

Plaque dedicated to Bruno Sereni

Up this road, on the left, you come to the Piazza Galletto, named after a famous Barga man of arms from the 16th Century. On the right, facing the piazza, is the office of the Barga monthly newspaper "Il Giornale di Barga", founded by Bruno Sereni in 1949 as "the independent voice of unity with the people of Barga abroad".

Largo Emilio Biondi and the beginning of Via di Borgo.

Via di Borgo is quite narrow, but in spite of this, at one time it was very busy because of the many shops that lined it, and because it conveniently links up with so many streets in the old town. As we have seen already, it leads to Via della Fontana and further up, to Vicolo Orsini and Via Giannetti, and finally ends at Via di Mezzo and Piazza Salvo Salvi or Piazza del Comune, as discussed in Itinerary n° 2.

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