BARGA. - In the province of Lucca, made known 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 west door bears the date 1371), and subsequently restored and completed in the 17th century; the unusually straight façade is the transformation of the side of a single-naved church (perhaps of the 11th century); it is soberly decorated with blind arches supported by pilasters, which later spread into Versiglia and Garfagnana; it has doors in the Pisan taste embellished with Lombardesque sculptures. The interior, with three naves, preserves the most valuable pulpit, a work attributed, like the plutei, to a follower of Guido Begarelli of Como (mid-13th century).
Other noteworthy works include: a relief attributable to Biduino (late 13th century), a gigantic wooden statue of St Christopher, of the 13th century, a ciborium and a Sacra Famiglia of the Della Robbia school, and numerous goldsmiths’ works kept in the sacristy.
Other Della Robbia terracottas are found in the churches of S. Francesco and the Conservatorio, the latter also noteworthy for a painted stained-glass window of the 16th century.