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Sundial: Gnomonic complex made of a central sundial and of two solar
quadrants: the one realized on the right wall faces east and tells the
time during the morning; the one on the left tells the time during the
afternoon and the sunset.
Location: Saint
Agnes church
Address: Via G.
Garibaldi - Joannis
Dimensions: 130 x
100 cm.
Sundial:
Gnomon with a stylized sun-shaped iron plaque and a hole in the
middle
through which the light of the sun passes.
Solar clocks:
Polar.
Motto: "QUOD FACTUM PERMANET – DEUS INSTAURAT QUOD ABIIT"
The
maxim in Latin, commissioned by Don Mario Locascio, the priest of
Joannis, was taken from a script by Saint Augustine:
"What happened
remains; God renovates what has passed."
Author: Francesco
Cescutti from Joannis and Aurelio Pantanali from Aiello
Anno: 1997 |
