People always want to measure time.
On the church towers are modern clocks and old sundials, so everyone can see what time it is.
Clock tower of a little church in Pustertal/South Tyrol
Sundial from the year 1763 on a wall of a church in the Adige Valley/South Tyrol
TEMPORA QUID VALEANT DICIT LABILIS UMBRA (old Latin language)
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The clock tower at the top looks like the model from which all others in your region were copied! Nice.
ReplyDeleteSomething about time and shadows, but what exactly, I can't translate. In high school and college in America I had to chose either German or Latin. German won.
ReplyDeleteThe sundial is kind of spooky.
Quanto valga il tempo dell'uomo, lo dice la labile ombra
ReplyDeletethe meaning is : The ephemeral shadows tells us the real value of time (time is ephemeral as much as a shadow)l
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