Barga

Barga is a medieval town and comune of the in , . It is home to around 10,000 people and is the chief town of the "Mediavalle" of the . It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia. Barga is a member of Cittaslow.
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  • Type: Village with 9,910 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: “046003” and “Barga, Tuscany”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Pascoli House Museum and Barga–Gallicano railway station.

Museum
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The opened in , Tuscany, Italy in 1960 and is devoted to the exhibition of the Italian writer Giovanni Pascoli's personal poetry.

Railway station
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is a railway station located in the region of serving the comunes of Barga and . The station is situated roughly midway between the two towns from which it takes its name, in the Mologno frazione of Barga, on the east bank of the river.

Church
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The is the main Roman Catholic church of the town of Barga, located in the region of , Italy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fornaci di Barga and Castelvecchio Pascoli.

Village
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, or simply Fornaci, is a frazione of Barga in the , , . It is located 165 m above sea level, on the left bank of the river .

Hamlet
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Castelvecchio di Barga, officially , is a village in in central Italy. Administratively, it is a frazione of the comune of Barga, in the , in the Valley, where poet Giovanni Pascoli bought the house "Cardosi-Carrara".

Hamlet
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is a hilltop village in Barga, , . As of 2022, it had a population of 21. The village was heavily damaged during World War II, where it was the site of a battle between the Wehrmacht and the African American 92nd Infantry Division.

Barga

Latitude
44.0739° or 44° 4′ 26″ north
Longitude
10.4843° or 10° 29′ 3″ east
Population
9,910
Elevation
354 metres (1,161 feet)
Open location code
8FPG3FFM+HP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 61753537
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6539733
Wiki­data ID
Q216479
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Barga” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بارغا”
  • Armenian: “Բարգա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Barqa”
  • Basque: “Barga”
  • Belarusian: “Барга”
  • Breton: “Barga”
  • Bulgarian: “Барга”
  • Catalan: “Barga (Itàlia)”
  • Catalan: “Barga”
  • Cebuano: “Barga (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Barga”
  • Central Bikol: “Barga”
  • Chechen: “Барга (коммуна)”
  • Chechen: “Барга”
  • Chinese: “巴尔加”
  • Corsican: “Barga”
  • Czech: “Barga”
  • Danish: “Barga”
  • Dutch: “Barga”
  • Esperanto: “Barga”
  • Finnish: “Barga”
  • French: “Barga”
  • Galician: “Barga”
  • German: “Barga”
  • Greek: “Μπάργκα”
  • Hebrew: “צ’יוקו”
  • Hungarian: “Barga”
  • Interlingua: “Barga”
  • Irish: “Barga”
  • Italian: “Barga”
  • Italian: “Comune di Barga”
  • Japanese: “バルガ”
  • Kazakh: “Барга”
  • Korean: “바르가”
  • Kurdish: “Barga, Toskana”
  • Kurdish: “Barga”
  • Ladin: “Barga”
  • Latin: “Barga”
  • Lithuanian: “Barga”
  • Lombard: “Barga”
  • Malay: “Barga”
  • Neapolitan: “Barga”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barga”
  • Norwegian: “Barga”
  • Persian: “بارگا”
  • Piemontese: “Barga”
  • Polish: “Barga”
  • Portuguese: “Barga”
  • Romanian: “Barga”
  • Russian: “Барга”
  • Scots: “Barga”
  • Serbian: “Barga”
  • Serbian: “Барга”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barga, Lucca”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barga”
  • Sicilian: “Barga”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بارقا”
  • Spanish: “Barga”
  • Swedish: “Barga”
  • Tagalog: “Barga, Toscana”
  • Tagalog: “Barga”
  • Turkish: “Barga, Toskana”
  • Turkish: “Barga”
  • Ukrainian: “Барга”
  • Urdu: “بارگا، ٹسکنی”
  • Uzbek: “Barga”
  • Venetian: “Barga”
  • Vietnamese: “Barga”
  • Volapük: “Barga”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Barga”
  • “Barga”

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