El Carillón de la Diagonal

*Location:

   Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Nuria
   (Església de la Mare de Déu de Núria)
   Carrer del Bon Pastor
   Barcelona, Spain
   LL: N 41.39467, E 2.15005

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*Contact:

   Parroquia de Nuestra Señora
   Carrer Bon Pastor 7-9
   08021 Barcelona
   T: 93 200 01 37
   E: mdnuria34@arqbcn.cat

*Schedule:

   Hours & quarters 0900-2100, Ave Maria
   1200; also 8 minutes before each Mass 

*Remarks:

   Added semitone is flat 7th;
   dedicated 8 Sep 2010

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     C F   /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 2010
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                 (unknown)
     Height of lowest level of bells:   (unknown)
     Height of highest level of bells:  (unknown)
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

The parish Website (in Catalan and Spanish) has a page about these bells.

Google contributed photo of the façade; most of the bells are visible at the upper left corner.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unidentified bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all European chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Spain.

   This page was built from the database on 23-Jul-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/07/19
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/07/19