BARGA. – In the province of Lucca, made famous by Pascoli who is buried there. The principal monument is the Cathedral, Romanesque in style, built in several phases between the 12th and 14th centuries (a door on the west side bears the date 1371), and subsequently restored and completed in the 17th century; the façade, unusually rectilinear, is the transformation of the side of a small single-naved church (perhaps of the 11th century); it is soberly decorated with hanging arches supported by pilasters, which later spread to Versiglia and Garfagnana; it has doors in the Pisan style embellished with Lombard-influenced sculptures. The interior, with three naves, preserves the most excellent pulpit, an attributed work, like the parapets, to a follower of Guido Begarelli of Como (mid-13th century).
Other notable works: a relief attributable to Biduino (late 12th century), a gigantic wooden statue by Cristoforo of the 13th century, a ciborium and a Sacred Family by a school preserved in the sacristy.
Barrella, number of goldsmith works preserved in the sacristy. Other della Robbia terracottas are found in the churches of S. Francesco and the Conservatory, notable also for a painted stained-glass window of the 16th century.