Casa Barezzi was the home of Antonio Barezzi, a wealthy merchant and music lover, who recognised Verdi’s talent as a young man and sponsored much of his teaching. Verdi taught and later married Barezzi’s daughter Margherita. The house is now a Verdi museum.
I dragged my case the 1km into the town from the tiny station – just as well I‘d already bought the ticket on from Busseto to Bologna as I don’t think I could do so here – and took a few photos of the Verdi statue in front of the Verdi Theatre in the hazy sun, before going into the house. The display consists mainly of many drawings of Verdi and of some of the great singers.
Then back to the station for an earlier train than I’d planned, to Bologna via Fidenza on two regional trains. We only had about 4 minutes to change at Fidenza, which seems dodgy planning considering that the Italian trains seem often to run late. The second train was actually a very modern 2-level thing, with a display at the end of each carriage showing next destination, arrival time, time late, speed (147kph, 91mph, was the highest I saw), internal temperature, external temperature, and WC status (permanently out of order, fouri servizio, at both ends of the carriage).
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