Just a few months ago the area was crammed packed with hundreds of people enjoying the groups and bands playing just below the church as part of the ten day Live in Barga Festa.
Events that happened during the Second World War are still making themselves felt even today as this week technicians from the comune were called and after inspecting the piazza have now roped off a large area as it is in danger of imminent collapse.
A good part of the piazza was in fact a house which was then destroyed during the Second World War.
Below the piazza there is still the ground floor or the cantina of that house which has been used as a limonaia – a place to conserve lemon trees during the winter months for many years.
As can be plainly seen from the images the large steel beam which supports the ceiling and therefore supports the piazza above is almost totally corroded.
Work has already started on shoring up the ceiling that it could be sometime before the piazza is actually usable again.
