CASTEGNATO, ITALY, February 12, 2012 (bsnews.it, translated the Italian): A huge bell, cast at the Poli Vittorio Veneto Foundry, has arrived in Castegnato for final polishing and detail work. The bell is 2.85 meters (9.3 feet) tall and 2.10 meters (6.9 feet) wide at the base. It weighs in at 12,342 kilos (6-1/4 tons.) The bell’s clapper alone weighs almost 600 pounds! The mayor of Castegnato, Giuseppe Orizio, turned out to congratulate the craftsmen on the excellence of their work and their entrepreneurial spirit. Giuseppe Sisti and his son David, of the TE.MA. bell company, will do the finishing work and then install it at the Hindu Monastery at Altare in Savona province. The bell will be placed outdoors not far from a similar but smaller bell that the Sistis produced for the monastery in 2002.
A video of the bell, decorated with the image of Lakshmi and Ganesh and encircled with Sanskrit slokas, can be seen Post Views: 566