Monday 15th October
A slow walk aound centro storico - old Barga - lots of atmosphere to absorb. Quiet little streets wind around ever upward ... a very nice way to while away the morning.
Lunch today at well reputed Rossi Alimentary, it's a grocery store which does a worker's fixed menu lunch. The place was really buzzing, the owner loudly shmoozing the patrons, none strangers by the sound of it, lots of f... Juventas etc. Anyway fast n dirty lunch, choice of 3 primo and 4 secondo - we chose gnocchi ragu - delicious and I had the arrosto misto (mixed roast), pork and turkey for secondo, Frank had caprese - not sure why, tomatoes give him ulcers! washed down with half a litre of chianti. All this for 10 euros each ... amazing. It felt like a long walk home along Via Roma with our full tums, but really only 1.1ks. Via Roma long straight gracious avenue of chestnut trees lined with lovely florentine style villas, some well maintained, other slowly disintegrating sadly.
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Porte Reale Barga
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Interesting pulpit, Duomo Barga
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St John the Baptist Baptismal font 14th C, Barga Duomo
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12th C Holy water font Barga Duomo
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12th C fresco in Barga Duomo
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View from Barga Centro Storico
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Another hilltop town from Barga
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House built into the old town wall, Barga
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Typical florentine villa along Via Roma Barga, this one a hotel
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