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Barga (10,200 inhabitants (2008), 410 meters above sea level) is the most important town of the Media Valle del Serchio the old part of town is high above the valley of the river, and due to its location was the capital of the Florentine possessions in Garfagnana, under which stood since 1341. 

The old town of Barga retains its medieval alleys and stairways and is dominated by the imposing bulk of the Duomo, building built on several occasions from the ninth to the seventeenth century, and placed in a splendid panoramic position on the Garfagnana and Apuan Alps. The town still partially surrounded by walls, of which still remain the Mancianella or Reale Gate, has some remarkable buildings, such as the Praetorian Palace (Palazzo Pretorio) with the Logge del Podestà of the fourteenth century, which houses the Museo Civico del Territorio di Barga with an important geological, paleontological and archaeological collection.

The center of Barga is the Piazza del Comune overlooked by the Palazzo Comunale in renaissance style and the sixteenth-century Loggia del Mercato, a short distance away are worth a visit the eighteenth-century Teatro dell’Accademia dei Differenti, Palazzo Balduini and the former Conservatory of Sant’Elisabetta with the adjacent church. 

In the village of Castelvecchio Pascoli, a fraction of the town of Barga, is the house where lived most of his life the poet Giovanni Pascoli, who is buried in the chapel next door to the house. 

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Weekly market in Barga: saturday
Weekly market, every Saturday from 8.00 to 13.30.

Tourist Information Office - Barga
Informazioni e servizi Turistici Itinera Lucca
Via di Mezzo, Barga
Tel. 0583 724743