Friday, May 27, 2005

The secret of the duomo bells revealed (again)


Eve and Roscoe King, recent arrivals in Barga from Australia sitting outside Aristo's bar in Barga Vecchia trying to work out just what the time is according to the bells of Barga.
Roscoe, a chef and manager at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia has travelled a good part of the globe but still he, and his fellow travellers, were baffled by the chimes ... just what time was it ?

This question has been asked by many visitors to Barga and to which, for some reason, the reply is almost always never given in full was answered here on barganews last year but we will publish again it today to give a hand to Roscoe and his friends.
For those of us who live here in Barga Vecchia we have the chimes of the Duomo to keep us company and tell us the time of day. Hourly they ring out over the castle but there is a kind of code to the ringing.
It is not simply one ring = one o clock, two rings = two o clock ... no, no, nothing so simple. Once you know it becomes a simple thing to work out but until you are given a "key" it is difficult to get to grips with.
People smile when asked and sometimes if they are feeling generous they might even hand out a clue of "think of ships bells" but otherwise it is not really talked about .
That is until Giordano at Casa Cordati who had been asked so many times by visitors to the Casa Cordati Gallery that he decided to print out a sheet in Italian and English.
His explanation is here

 

1 Comments:

At 11:12 AM, BILLY CONNELL said...

it is good that the bells of the duomo have such an interesting story and in contrast it is a shame that the commune of barga have gone back on their word to accept the bell being donated by scotland to molongo purely on the basis that they do not want to pay for the transportation costs only instead of creating a stronger relationship with glasgow they have let a great oppertunity go by

 

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