Halloween in the Castle
Thousands of people came through the gates of Barga Vecchia last night to celebrate doom and gloom within the castle. The imported festa of Halloween goes from strength to strength. Each year more people take part and each year the polemic grows as to just what is the point of a festa that celebrates death, blood and gore. Is it just another kind of carnival but with added blood or does it have stronger, deeper roots stretching back into our collective memories from europe in darker times? Whatever, people had fun last night. O'Connor the award winning photographer for barganews was out and about in the dark streets of Barga last night but for some reason all the images that he filed for this article seem to be of women who were in the Altana Trattoria and nowhere else. Was he kept prisoner there during the night or are there darker forces at work ? |
