Sundial

Museo della Civiltà Contadina del Friuli Imperiale (Sundials courtyard)

Photo n° 5

Our current time, called “d’oltralpe” (North of the Alps), was imposed by the Austrians after the Campoformido Treaty of 1797 with Napoleon.

It corresponds to the 24^th part of the time which occurs in between one midnight and the next.