The bridge from the new to the old town

Barga

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May 26th 2018
As a bit of nostalgia we went up to Barga in the Carfangnana area north of Lucca, for the weekend. This is where Ian spent a month doing a colour etching course 20 years ago in 1998. I joined him half way through. It is a gorgeous little 10th Century mountaintop fortified village with a new town over a small gully. Lots of people here speak Italian with a Scottish accent as, after WW2 People from ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more