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Barga, in brief.

Garfagnana hill town, Romanesque cathedral.

A stone-built hill town in the Garfagnana, looking out over the Serchio valley to the Apuan Alps.

Its tangle of medieval lanes climbs to a Romanesque cathedral, and a long history of emigration gives Barga lasting ties to Scotland.

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