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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 apprendere di due persone che stanno ancora insieme dopo tanti anni fa pensare ad un tempo lontano e ormai passato, probabilmente irripetibile per tanti motivi, dove amore era anche unione, [...]
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08/24/2011 6:10 pm
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
10/05/2009 1:30 am
The divorce rate in Italy catapulted 74 percent between 1995 and 2005, according to a study by the national statistics* institute. In 1995, 158 of 1,000 married couples were separated and 80 were divorced. A decade later, the figures had jumped to 272 separations and 151 divorces. But it still had...
09/27/2009 7:25 pm
We wrote a week ago about his stag night – “Lorenzo took the wise step of organising his stag night, not as it is done traditionally- the day before his wedding but a full week before he actually takes his bride to the altar. Wise man.” – this afternoon, that wedding took place...
09/20/2009 1:36 am
A gathering of the clans up at the Duomo today for a Barga – Scots wedding under what was probably the last of the summer sunshine. Laura and Christopher took their vows with the aid of the Proposto Don Stefano and a priest brought in specially from Scotland for the occasion. The celebrations then...
09/19/2009 2:33 pm
This morning the Mayor of Barga, Marco Bonini presided over the wedding ceremony of Antonio Maggiore and Laura Biagiotti. An audience of friends and relations completely filled the centuries-old Palazzo Pancrazi as they watched the official joining of the couple before all trooping outside for the...
07/04/2009 5:54 pm
Barga and Barghigiani have over the years become used to seeing wedding parties walking through through Barga Vecchia on their way to the Duomo or the Palazzo Pancrazi on their way to make official their vows. Barga has also become a place for weddings for couples from outside – the Scottish weddings...
06/13/2009 3:53 pm
Regular readers of barganews might remember the series of sparkling articles written back in 2002 which charted the unfolding story of a journalist trying to come to terms with the two opposing aims of enjoying a prolonged stay in Barga during the summer festivals and at the same time writing attempting...
Valter Ghiloni:
Lungi da me il paragonare svastiche e fi
nicola salotti:
Mi rammarica vedere paragonate le svasti
keane:
IL QUESTORE DELLA PROVINCIA DI LUCCA
Sonia Ercolini:
Siamo nuovamente a parlare del degrado d 
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