{"id":2495,"date":"2024-06-10T21:43:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topofonie.it\/luogo\/la-campana-di-longarone\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T14:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T12:44:22","slug":"la-campana-di-longarone","status":"publish","type":"luogo","link":"https:\/\/topofonie.it\/en\/luogo\/la-campana-di-longarone\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BELL OF LONGARONE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A sound that tells a story<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A bell that rings only once a year, every year at the same time, in remembrance of what has been. Lest we forget. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The old country and the new country<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The bell ringing in Longarone is the only surviving one of the three that belonged to the bell tower of the church that was completely destroyed by the Vajont disaster.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forged in 1959 by a Udine foundry, it had been spreading its voice-“very sweet,” survivors assure-in the valley for a few years. It must have sounded even on the night of the disaster, when the village fell apart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hearing her voice from afar, as the inhabitants of that valley of yesteryear probably did, is no longer possible today. We would have liked to be able to hear it in the silence, and perhaps reflected in the immense concrete parabola of the dam that was the cause of the disaster and is still there, clearly visible from the church terrace. But the bell is small and the noise of traffic on the roads separating the church from the Vajont Valley and the dam is now relentless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A great deal could be said about the sound of bells, the two levels of figure and background, their particular tuning system, the difficult art of casting, the national schools and parameters of official campanology, not to mention the techniques and traditions of bell ringers or “scampanotad\u00f4rs.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will not do this for this bell, because its meaning is precisely to make people think silently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Directions<\/h3>\n\n\n\t\t\t
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WHERE<\/strong>
In Longarone, on the outer amphitheater and around the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEN<\/strong>
October 9 each year at 10:39 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ACCESSIBILITY<\/strong>
The church is easily accessible and has ramps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Audio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Binaural<\/a> audio, headphone listening recommended.
Please note: no recording no matter how technically advanced can ever represent the experience of real listening. Topofonie.it is not an archive of sounds, but an invitation to go and listen with our own ears to the world around us. The files given here are for illustrative purposes only. <\/em><\/em> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The bell of Longarone – recording by Andrea Blasetig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Links and curiosities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n