Indexes to tower bell sites in Italy
Tower bell instruments or collections of 8 or more bells can be found in Italy.
This Website has a site data page for each such instrument or collection which is known.
To facilitate finding pages of interest to visitors,
as well as to show related information about groups of sites,
those site data pages are indexed in several different ways, as follows:
- Tower bell sites in this country can be categorized
according to the type of instrument.
Each of the pages linked here presents a variety of indexes
for one particular type of instrument:
- The following pages are not segregated by type of instrument:
- Combined index by province and city
- Combined index by city, regardless of province
If you are looking for a specific site by its institutional name
(e.g., a church or school) or by the instrument's proper name,
pick either of the above indexes and then use the "find in page"
feature of your Web browser to locate a distinctive word
(or partial word) in that name.
- Combined index by bellfoundry
- For this region, sites that are no more
(exhibited, relocated, destroyed, sold, stolen, etc.)
are listed within the
similar page for Europe.
- Also available:
- Summaries for Italy:
- A PDF listing all sites in this region is available from the
hardcopy page.
- Additional notes:
- Some towers are located in a hamlet or village that is an administrative
fraction ("frazione", abbreviated "fraz.") of a larger town or city.
All such sites are identified and indexed here under the name
of the "frazione," with a cross reference from the name of the central place
in those indexes that are ordered by place name.
- Many Italian place names begin with "San" (with the name of a male saint)
or "Santa" (with the name of a female saint).
All such names are abbreviated as "S." in sitenames (which appear
in all indexes) but are spelled out in full on site data pages
(and appear as auxiliary lines in some indexes).
Although this convention differs from that commonly seen in Italian text,
it makes it possible for all saint-named places to sort together
without distinction when generating reports.
- The Federazione Nazionale Suonatori di Campane
(FNSC),
or National Federation of Bell Ringers, is an umbrella organization
for the various regional bell-ringing societies in Italy.
It was formed in 2012 by 16 associations; presently there are 19.
The "Modalita" page has very clear diagrams of four methods
of hanging bells for swinging full circle —
Ambrosian, Bolognese, Veronese and English.
- There are over 500 towers containing one or more bells
hung in the Veronese system.
Some are rung only by hand, some are rung both by hand and
by a Veronese keyboard, and some are rung only by motor.
Only those with at least 8 bells (but with any type of mechanism)
are indexed here, and they are tagged "ring(V)"
in the various Italian indexes.
For the others, see the
Website
of the Associazione Suonatori di Campane a Sistema Veronese (ASCSV);
it has both a dynamic map (which shows almost 575 towers)
and a set of five PDFs (which list those towers geographically
and include details of all their bells).
Return to Indexes to tower bell sites in Europe.
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