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1 Giant flaps clock Pesariis, the clock town Clock Museum 10 Clock with carillon Around 1930 in Pesariis the flaps The clock was built during the clocks originate. Hour and minutes are The monumental Clock-Making Route Casa della Pesa ‘50s by the Solari brothers and printed on flaps, which turn as book it strikes the hours on a bell and The monumental Clock-Making Route can be defined as an open-air museum which integrates pages. This system will be employed Casa Bruseschi the quarter hours on two other in the information systems boards in and completes the Pesaro clock-making museum with an exhibition of monumental clocks which bells. The carillon is made up of have been studied in great detail and designed to represent in an assortment of artistic forms, Airports and Railway Stations until the Old Wash 11 bells with the notes do, re, mi, end of 1900. the passage and measurement of time. fa, sol, la, si diesis, si, do, re and mi. It plays the melody “us saludi Waterfall “di Fuas” (30 min. a piedi) o Marie” by means of a needle 2 Water tank clock run that drives the mechanical One of the first instruments used by Grocery store hammers. With a keyboard and men to measure time, was composed electrical heads it is possible to play by a container to be filled by a specific 9 Shop “Bottega del Tempo” other melodies. water flow. In this clock every tank gets filled in one hour. The current hour is 6 Restoration workshop shown by the total of the filled tanks. 11 Clock with turbine At 12 o’clock a.m. and p.m. the tanks 8 Accomodation The clock is regulated by the are automatically empty. 7 pendulum, the push is generated Restaurant by the water wheel which substitutes the traditional weight. 10 Farm 3 Sundial 1700‘s 5 This should be recharged It is a sundial with a double division: italic hour with zero periodically, while the turbine hour at sundown and the hour on the other side of the Alps, 11 turns perennially by means that coincides with the solar time currently of the water flow that comes in use, already used by the German from the wellspring. a disk states back in the 1700’s. This clutch connects the continuous division was added during the movement of the turbine to Hapsburg rule. The hours are 4 the intermittent and constant indicated in correspondence movement of the clock. to every line. 3 12 Calendar clock On the lower disk the age of the current moon and the 4 Chessboard clock 12 day of the week can be read. The longer hand, starting Around 1930 in Pesariis there comes from the outside, indicates the day of the month, the out a special digital clock in which month, the zodiac sign, the duration of the sun referred to every figure is composed by 15 this square and the duration of the night. The hours of the flaps. Those ones, by a mechanical 1 sun are indicated by the yellow ellipse: from Decembre turning, they show a red colour 2 9 to January 4 the sun is completely screened by the on one side or a grey one from mountains, on January 17 it illuminates half of the town, another, in this way composing on February 14 it lightens completely the town. the various numbers. Today the flaps have been replaced by LED. Pieria - Casa dell’orologio Clock with robot 5 Pieria Clock beating hours by a robot The house was watchmaking shop of the Capellari from Croce 1600 to 1800. It still conserves, restored, the images of is a modern remake of the Saint Giorgio on the western façade, the Justice in the 7 Analemmatica sundial clocks build in the most eastern façade, the sundial and the clock on the southern To read the time, position your feet one on the left side and one on the right side of the central line, at important towers. façade. The sundial with the italic hour and the hour on the height of the current month indicated therein. The shadow projected from your own body will The characteristics are: the other side of the Alps was used to regulate the clock, indicate, on the outer numbering, the correspondent solar time to the sundial that passes through Graham’s escapement; hour that besides the hours it indicated the days of the month, Pesariis. This time is slightly different with respect to our time zone. sharing with mechanical the days of the week and of the month, written in common programming of the Italian of the 1600’s. No historical memory of the original quarters, half hours and 8 Clock with planets hours; differential unit to send mechanism exists which has today been substituted wirh a The clock represents the Solar system. The revolution time of the planets mechanical bell tower clock with electric winding, placed the weight strenght to escapement goes from 0,24 years for Mercury to the 165 years of Neptune; as re- even during charging. on the western façade. gards Earth it takes one year splitting the course in twelve months and four seasons. Besides, every day it turns on itself making the hour. The 6 Bascula clock red arrow shows the real position of the Sun, seen from the Earth, across Croce - The balancing container is divided in the Zodiac constellations. Clock with ecliptic two equal parts, the first fills up until The inner disc turns one time each it turns over while the second one year, and it shows, according to empties itself, similar to an automatic 9 Planisphere and nocturnal clock the bar which connects the centre hourglass. The time is regulated by In the lower section there are represented the stars located in the sky at the observation moment. to the 12 hour: the zodiac sign the quantity of the water that fills the The red line connecting the North Star with the Great Bear constellation shows the hour. The nocturnal, at the current date; sun height in contaire. The two hinges, set in motion installed on its side, works with this principle. This system was used to state the hour through the stars, the sky (maximum on June 21st, by the “bascula”, pulls along the rotation before the clock invention. grazing to southern mountains on of the reduction gear wheels and that of the hour hands. December 21st). THE PESARIIS CLOCK MUSEUM VAL PESARINA: TIME VALLEY out of cast iron at industrial foundries The Pesariis Museum is one of very few such museums There is a reason why, throughout the world, when millions of using wooden in Italy. It has great potential and should have eyes gaze up at clocks set in belfries, churches, castles, town moulds supplied beneficial effects both on attempts to develop local hall buildings, stations and railways, they see the name of by the constructor culture and traditions, and on the local economy. For the Fratelli Solari company from Prato Carnico. which directly these reasons, the Municipality of Prato Carnico is In fact, back in the XVII century, the town of Pesariis was a carried out bronze seeking to collect as many exhibits, materials and crafts centre in which blacksmiths practised their art widely, castings for the as much documentation as possible, as it is aware paving the way for more refined manufacturing techniques. gears. The size of that this historical and scientific wealth is otherwise Conditions were now ripe for further developments in the the clocks, the stone liable to be lost forever. Its value, embracing a much mechanical manufacturing industry, culminating in the weights which were broader view of the evolution of technical knowledge, building of clocks. suspended inside the transcends the development of a single valley which belfries and the clappers were in proportion to the weight played a key historical role in the production of Pendulum clocks of the bells and the length and strength of the indices. The instruments to measure “social time”. Were manufactured by several clocks were completely autonomous and were hand-wound The Pesariis Museum currently houses over 100 clocks families, a skill which they had until they were electrified around the 1930’s with all the from various periods, originating in different areas, probably acquired during their attendant advantages. almost all of which belong to the Municipality of seasonal migration to Germany Prato Carnico or which have been lent by private and Bohemia, as can be inferred Technological evolution individuals to be exhibited. The collection offers a from certain technological and Towards the middle of the 1800’s, the construction of tower complete overview of clock production, starting with stylistic similarities. Initially, the clocks underwent a radical change, progressing to an almost rare pieces dating back to 1400, and running all Pesarina Val in clocks were produced and then industrial level. Instead of being forged in iron, the frame the way up to the modern era with indicator clocks sold to noble families in Friuli. was built using cast iron. The wheels, instead of being forged, which combine time measurement with a wide range In 1725, Solari officially started curved and serrated by hand were cast in brass which is a of industrial services and information. manufacturing clocks under the much more ductile material than iron, turned and milled with C machines built entirely at Faria and driven by water from l Solari name. “Faria” is about s k c s one kilometre from the built- the Rio Possâl. up area of Pesariis and is near the river Possâl which provides Tower clocks with automatic rewinding the power to drive a wooden Around 1930, with the introduction of electric motors in all Museum of Clock Making bladed water wheel.