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Barga
Barga, famous for it's summer music festival has two distinct areas - Barga Vecchia and Barga Giardino.

Barga Vecchia is the walled part and is a maze of small piazzas, ageless shops and galleries and narrow climbing streets which culminates in the duomo.

Barga Vecchia is also where you can find the Tourist Office, The Teatro dei Differente ( home of Opera Barga) and several good restaurants.

Barga Giardino is the newer district and here is where you will find shops and stores to take care of all your holiday needs from banking to supermarkets, gelateria to corner shops.

The choice of restaurants in Barga will satisfy the most discerning of palates and the shopping available should cater for all holiday requirements.

The weekly market held each Saturday gives an opportunity for you to exeperience the best of Italian natural produce as well as a range of clothes and domestic supplies.

Barga's cathedral was originally founded in the 9th century and then added to over the next four hundred years. The duomo was severely damaged in the earthquake of 1920 and has since been restored.

It sits on the crown of the hill on around which the whole town clusters and at the front there is a terrace that gives an almost unbroken 360 degree view of the surrounding hills and valleys.

Barga has a new public swimming pool and tennis courts. The pool has lovely mountain views, plenty of deck chairs and a bar which serves food.
Castelnuovo di Garfagnana
Castelnuovo di Garfagnana is the administrative capital of the region and whilst boasting no particular outstanding tourist attraction, the town has a charm of its own whilst going about its own business.

It is sited at the meeting of the Serchio and Turriet Secca rivers and is both the commercial and hiking centre for the valley.

It has had a market since the fifteenth century which held every Thursday. The centre of the town is dominated by the twelfth century Rocca and the duomo, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul.
Lucca
The completely walled medieval heart of the Lucca has two definite sides to it.

By day the it has a slow, leisurely feel which encourages you to take two hours to do something that should normally take 30 minutes.

By night the city takes on a more mysterious feel.

It is well worth making the effort to pay a visit just as the sun is setting. You can hire bicycles and ride the circuit of the city walls (approximately 6km), or you may want to relax at a cafe table, order a coffee and watch the world go by.

Excellent restaurants and shopping!
Grotta del Vento
Grotta del Vento Generally regarded as the best cave system in Tuscany, the Grotta del Vento is a spectacular and bizarre landscape of caverns and lakes.

The caves are reached by driving along the bottom of the Turrite valley from Gallicano, directly across the river from Barga train station. There are three different daily tours through the caves from April to September lasting 1, 2, or 3 hours.

Outside of these months the caves are only open on Sundays for the one hour tour. Regardless of when you are visiting try and get there early to avoid the crowds.
Pisa
Pisa How on earth does the tower remain standing?

The tower, duomo, baptistery and cemetery are all on the same site, the Campo dei Miracoli, at Pisa is well worth a visit.
Florence

The list of things to see is endless - the Duomo and Bell tower, the Uffizi, Piazza della Signoria, the Ponte Vecchio, the Pitti Palace, the Boboli Gardens, and Santa Croce with the tombs and memorials to Italian national heroes; Galileo, Rossini, Puccini, Dante, amongst many others.
Abetone
A good place to visit at all times of the year although it can be quiet in the autumn. The resort has six chair lifts which are tested to the full during the skiing season.
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