title: Castelvecchio Pascoli
text: # Castelvecchio Pascoli
  
  Castelvecchio di Barga, officially Castelvecchio Pascoli, is a village in Tuscany in central Italy. Administratively, it is a frazione of the comune of Barga, in the province of Lucca, in the Serchio Valley, where poet Giovanni Pascoli bought the house "Cardosi-Carrara".
  
  ## History
  
  Giovanni Pascoli spent much of his time in Castelvecchio, dedicating himself to poetry and studies in classical literature. His former house, now in use as the Pascoli House-Museum [it] ("Pascoli House-Museum"), has three desks where he worked in Latin, Greek and Italian. Here he seemed to have finally rebuilt the "nest" – his family's traditional residence; the original in San Mauro was destroyed.
  
  The Casa museo Pascoli is still visited today. Giovanni Pascoli and his sister Mariù are buried in the adjacent chapel.
  
  ## Sports
  
  The sports company "Il Ciocco" hosted, in 1991, the second edition of the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.
  
  