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Beatrice and Riccardo marry in style

231 days ago

A society wedding in Barga this weekend as the owner of the Hotel Villa Moorings, Beatrice Salvi finally said yes to Riccardo Viglione, son of the eminent Doctor and author, Prof. Arturo Viglione*. The celebrations had already started the day before as Barga Vecchia filled up with Super Heroes (article here) but the following day it was time for the more serious event. Their choice of church, San Francesco although smaller than the Duomo proved absolutely the right choice as [...]

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09/19/2012 12:09 pm

Barga – the Comune of happy marriages

Barga has been gradually building up its reputation for successful marriage ceremonies for the last decade. In fact the city is known as Barga – the Comune of happy marriages - Il Comune dei matrimoni felice This week there was another happy marriage taking place in Palazzo Pancrazi with two...

07/28/2012 1:27 pm

Musical wedding in Barga

Over the last decade he has appeared on the pages of this site many, many times - usually hidden behind his vast array of drums with the premier soul band in Tuscany – Mr. Pitiful but today finally he takes centre stage and this time not as a member of a large group but as a simple duo. The...

07/10/2012 11:53 pm

Scottish wedding in Barga

As you can see from the images, it was a pristine July day in Tuscany with not a cloud in the sky and temperatures up in the high 30s. The Duomo in Barga Vecchia was the setting for a couple from Scotland who decided that Barga was the perfect place for their perfect wedding. Just one look at the weather...

04/21/2012 12:18 pm

Meteo wedding: David e Daniela oggi sposi

Oggi è giorno di festa per tutta la redazione di giornaledibarganews. Si è sposato il nostro meteorologo David Sesto che si è unito in matrimonio questa mattina nella chiesa di San Pietro in Campo con Daniela Marchi di San Pietro in campo, amica nostra a sua volta e figlia di un caro amico di questo...

03/24/2012 4:17 pm

Barga wedding in Scotland

Here in Barga people have more or less got used to seeing Scottish weddings in the piazza – after all, this is the most Scottish town in Italy. Over the years there have been many, many weddings with the participants sporting heather, tartan and of course, the men in kilts coming out of the Duomo...

10/30/2011 10:50 am

Cinquant’anni di matrimonio per Ubaldo e Maria

Bravi. Una parola che racchiude in sé tanti significati soprattutto quando si parla di Maria lenzi e Ubaldo Stefano Bertoncini, i due coniugi residenti nel nostro comune he il 21 ottobre hanno festeggiato le nozze d’oro, i 50 anni di matrimonio. Nella quotidianità del nostro tempo e del nostro mondo...

08/24/2011 6:10 pm

Per il maestro dei campanari un doppio speciale

Coppia inossidabile quella che sabato 20 agosto ha festeggiato ben 65 anni di matrimonio, si tratta infatti del veterano e maestro dei campanari Giovanni Nesi e della moglie Gina Baregi, residenti in località Lato a Barga. I festeggiamenti sono iniziati con il doppio suonato dai campanari mentre la...

07/16/2011 7:08 pm

International wedding in Barga

A wedding ceremony with a definite international flavour was held in Barga this afternoon between David Orr and his bride, Kristin Sullivan. The story starts in India when David from Canada met Kristin from California, USA but with Irish roots. Friends they met in India offered the pair their house...

06/27/2011 12:09 pm

Emma and Fabio marriage – 1940′s and 50′s style

Our wedding date: June 26, 2011 – Today is our wedding! EMMA: “Ho dovuto passare 23 anni, un corso d’italiano, un mare e mille momenti di solitudine e paura prima di trovarmi con l’uomo che mi ha fatto capire il significato delle parole ‘a casa’, ‘amore vero’,...

05/24/2011 2:58 pm

Scottish wedding on the terrrace of Palazzo Pancrazi

The third week in May, bright sunshine, swallows diving around the terracotta tiles roofs of Barga Vecchia and even a slight breeze, every now and again, just to cool things down slightly. In the distance, La Pania and the mountains which beckon and reminded us that the Mediterranean...

09/23/2010 10:58 am

Wedding Lydia Abbott and Jonathan Durrant

Romeo, Romeo where for art thou Romeo ? – one of the most famous lines to have come flowing from the quill of William Shakespeare, could quite easily have been one of the questions asked (and answered ) at a marriage ceremony in Barga this week. But not by a Montague or Capulet but instead by...

09/18/2010 12:34 am

Scottish wedding in Barga

The dark clouds and threatening rain could not dampen the spirits of Cameron Drever and Hollie Armitage from Edinburgh who were married this afternoon in Palazzo Pancrazi. The couple were here in Barga thanks to the recommendations of Mauro Cecchini – who’s family were originally from Barga but...

07/25/2010 5:23 am

Vaina Continuati and Alessandro Stefani marry

Vaina has appeared on barganews many times over the past decade. Barga born and bred but has spent most of her working life working in the fashion industry far way from the city she loves. She was Giorgio Armani’s favourite model for many years. Alessandro’s video work has also appeared a...

06/28/2010 12:01 pm

Wedding Maggiore – Harris

The centuries old Duomo of Barga was this weekend filled with the sound of English voices singing traditional English hymns as the families and friends of Annalisa Jane Maggiore and Alexander Jordan Harris celebrated the marriage of the couple in a moving ceremony presided over by their own priest...

05/31/2010 5:56 pm

Scottish – Irish wedding

The City of Barga was host to an international wedding this weekend when Douglas Rankine and Ginevra Benedetti were joined in matrimony in front of a large group of friends and relatives in the Duomo in Barga Vecchia. They had come from places dotted around the globe including Australia, Switzerland,...

05/19/2010 11:34 pm

Anglo-Scottish wedding in Barga

This morning there were gales force winds rushing down from the North which brought tiles crashing to the ground in Barga Vecchia. This afternoon it threatened rain (once again) but there was a brief spell when the sun did actually come out and Barga did once more look and feel like it should do...

04/21/2010 6:08 pm

Secret motorbike wedding

It was a secret wedding, held outside the Comune of Barga in Castelnuovo Garfagnana with no wedding guests and just two witnesses and all over in a matter of minutes but the cameras of barganews are everywhere and the event did not take place unseeen. Marco Landi from Barga, who’s heavily tattooed...

03/15/2010 3:31 am

Wedding of the year

This Saturday Barga Vecchia was assailed by hundreds of people all eager to to join in what was already being dubbed “the wedding of the year”. Sally Li He from Qingdao, China and Riccardi Negri from Barga. For only the second week in March, with a long wedding season in front of us, then...

11/14/2009 7:10 pm

Wedding with an international flavour in Barga Vecchia

The groom born in Nagpur, India but living in London, UK and the bride, born in Esch-Sur-Alzette in Luxembourg but of Italian citizenship gave a distinctly international flavour to a wedding in Barga Vecchia this afternoon. The groom’s mother dressed in traditional sari of the Indian Subcontinent...