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The place I recently stayed at in Umbria, Italy for New Year helpfully tolled bells 1-to-4 times each 15 minutes to describe whereabouts in the hour we were. Al
by detritus 5y ago
The place I recently stayed at in Umbria, Italy for New Year helpfully tolled bells 1-to-4 times each 15 minutes to describe whereabouts in the hour we were. All night long.
- dEnigma 5y agoPretty common for church bells in Austria too. 1-4 times for 15 min intervals, and then on the full hour, after the four chimes, the number of the hour.
- philovivero 5y agoWhen would it chime 4 times?
- dEnigma 5y agoSorry, I didn't make this quite clear. At the full hour it first chimes four times, to denote that it's a full hour, and then, after a small pause, the number of the hour.
- bipson 5y agoBut not during the night...
- dEnigma 5y agoThey used to at least. Since I live in the city now I can't tell personally but I just called my mother and she says the clock tower in her town also rings during the night. Edit: From what I could gather in a couple of minutes it still seems to be pretty widespread. There have been some court cases about it, to get specific churches to silence the bells, but not in general.
- bell-cot 5y agoFrom various anecdotes, I'd expect that the locals slept soundly. But if the bell mechanism somehow broke during the night - a fair number of them would wake up, wondering at the odd silence.
- Semaphor 5y agoIt’s the same here (our 2km² city center has 5 churches, so you are never far from one), and I can confirm. You sleep easily through those, and I only hear them subconsciously. When someone is visiting and complains about how loud it is, I sometimes have to ask what they are talking about.
- wiredfool 5y agoAnd then in Ireland, the bells occasionally toll eleventy billion starting at 10 to the hour.