http://www.giornaledibarganews.com/2009/06/04/the-duomo-clock-is-back-up-and-running-again/ busily putting barga on the map Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:24:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.giornaledibarganews.com/2009/06/04/the-duomo-clock-is-back-up-and-running-again/#comment-1865 The Bells of Barga – essential maintenance | barganews Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:05:06 +0000 http://www.giornaledibarganews.com/?p=9338#comment-1865 [...] It is not the only “operation” that the team from the Campanari have performed recently. Only in April of last year they performed emergency surgery on the clock in the Duomo that chimes out over the city on the hour and every quarter hour which had been running into problems. Age had started to catching up with the mechanism. It is after all, over 60 years old and starting to show its age. If it was not for the constant resetting, adjusting and oiling by Popi – Giamperio Gonnella the sound of the bells would have stopped a long time ago. (article here) [...] [...] It is not the only “operation” that the team from the Campanari have performed recently. Only in April of last year they performed emergency surgery on the clock in the Duomo that chimes out over the city on the hour and every quarter hour which had been running into problems. Age had started to catching up with the mechanism. It is after all, over 60 years old and starting to show its age. If it was not for the constant resetting, adjusting and oiling by Popi – Giamperio Gonnella the sound of the bells would have stopped a long time ago. (article here) [...]

]]> http://www.giornaledibarganews.com/2009/06/04/the-duomo-clock-is-back-up-and-running-again/#comment-1864 monacu Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:01:01 +0000 http://www.giornaledibarganews.com/?p=9338#comment-1864 If ever a photo essay deserved to be called a work of poetry, this is it. If ever a photo essay deserved to be called a work of poetry, this is it.

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