The Leprignano clock was originally in the bell tower of the church in the medieval village and was placed on the tower in the 1700s.
It functions still today with a mechanism of weights of the type known as “alla romana”: the division of time is not in 12 hours but in six and it has a single ‘hand’.
This clock scans the time according to the tradition of the church at the end of the XIII century: from Avamaria (sunrise) to ‘sunset’.
During the day, the hand completes four cycles and to work out the hour they used particular rings of the bell called “ribotti”.
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