2️⃣2️⃣ The walls tell... | "Arrival of the bells" (I muri raccontano...

In the post-war period (1915-1918 WWI) the problem arose of replacing all the bells of the new Church of San Giovanni.

The old bells were handed over to the Barigozzi company in Milan, which undertook to repay them and deliver five new ones for the sum of 54,000 lire.

After three months of waiting, on August 19, 1922, among the festive crowd, the new bells arrived at Mombaruzzo station.

They were transported to the bell tower in nine ox-drawn wagons, where they were lined up and mounted and on 20 August 1922 they were blessed by the Bishop.

The walls tell... | Project information

The municipal project "I muri raccontano..." (The walls tell...) is a major camouflage of the town created by Luigi Amerio: through pictorial art, the walls and house facades represent Fontanile's past from the Middle Ages to the present day.

• Source images: Beppe Chiodi