Piazza Garibaldi loses one of its historic trees

The sound of a chain saw buzzing in the piazza this morning brought out a few inquisitive residents of Barga Vechia and it was a sad sight that greeted them as one of the historic trees in Piazza Garibaldi was being cut down and carted away.

As the statue of Garibaldi look impassively on , one of the residents in the piazza commented sadly that he had been there 50 years and he could always remember that tree standing there exactly as it was for all of those years and now it had gone.

A small space in the floor of the piazza was all that was left to show of a tree that had once flourished and provided much needed shadow in the summer months for the inhabitants and visitors to Barga Vecchia.

In fact the tree had probably been there a good deal longer as the black and white photograph from probably the late 20’s or early 30’s clearly shows the young tree already shading the seated men below it.

As can be seen from one of the images taken this morning showing a cross section of the downed tree, it was not in the best of health.

Attention will now turn towards the remaining trees in the piazza to see if they too are healthy and do not represent a danger to passing visitors.

 

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