Tourist Attraction in Verona:
Torre dei Lamberti
La Torre dei Lamberti is a 84-meter-high medieval tower in Verona that rises from Piazza Erbe, the ancient Roman Forum, in the historic center of the city. The tower was built by the powerful Lamberti family, who started building it in the 11th century. At that time dates the lower part in terracotta and tuff tiles. In 1140, in full municipal age, it was elected a civic tower and the first bell was installed, of which nothing is known. In 1272 the statutes established that, in addition to the bell of the Arengo (later called Rengo, from the assembly that called in meeting), there was also another, the Marangona (derived from "marangon", which in the dialect of Verona means carpenter ), to signal the beginning and the end of the work activities. In May 1403 a thunderbolt knocked down the top of the tower and only in 1448 did the restoration and raising work begin. which lasted until 1464. In 1406 the bellmen made a plea for the Venetian governor to maintain their privileges, something that he confirmed. In 1452 at the Campanista Campanista Gasparino from Vicenza, the recast of the Marangona and Rengo bells was assigned. In 1471 the Marangona was again redone because it inclined. In the meantime (1464) the raising work was completed, bringing the tower to 84 meters, completed in Gothic style, in its current form. In 1521 the Bonaventurini family rebuilt the Rengo, which was re-enclosed by them in 1557, obtaining what still today rings on the tower, inside the octagonal cell. In 1597 the Da Levo dynasty recast the Marangona, as the master Gardoni remembers "in gothic shape". We also know the identity of the bell ringers in service in 1606, Ruggero Minali and sons, replaced in the assignment, from 1632 to 1797 by the Tanara family, in whose chronicles one remembers that their old woman was incinerated by a lightning bolt while spreading to a window of the tower; from the same fell a young man of their family without reporting any injury. Word processing: Giovambattista Spagnuolo (Myooni)
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