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The city of the bells

Agnone, a very special little town situated at 850 meters above sea level on the river Verrino. Here, in the papal foundry owned by Pasquale Marinelli, bells have been manufactured since the 1300s. Its story began in 1339 when an ancestor of Marinelli, Nicodemus, inscribed his name on the bell of the church of Agnone, the grand parish of St. Emidio. From then on, the Marinelli family members have continued to pass down the craft from father to son, using the same techniques employed by their ancestors. The success of these bells is not only attributed to the centuries of experience of those who craft them but also to the exceptional quality of their sound, as pure and powerful as it is, achieved through precise calculations of weight, thickness, diameter, and height for each bell.
The Marinelli foundry has crafted bells for some of the world's most prestigious churches. Here, they prepared a bell for the Jubilee, with a diameter of 6 feet and weighing 5 tons. To create it, the workers at the Marinelli foundry toiled for over a year, whereas the usual production cycle for a bell typically takes about three months. The first strike of "Jubilaeum MM," the name of the bell, took place in the churchyard of St. Peter's in Rome. The note produced by the magnificent bell was a G, which was promptly followed by the synchronized ringing of bells from around the world, thus inaugurating the Holy Year and welcoming the start of the new millennium."