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WHAT SOUND DOES A CIRIBICIACCOLA MAKE?

WHAT SOUND DOES A CIRIBICIACCOLA MAKE?

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Abbazia di Chiaravalle - Via Sant'Arialdo 102

The bell tower of the Chiaravalle Abbey, the complex of buildings inhabited by Cistercian monks, is known as the Ciribiciaccola by the people of Milan. Along with the sound of its bell, nicknamed Bernarda in honor of St. Bernard of Chiaravalle and still rung by hand to gather the monks in prayer, a nursery rhyme in the local dialect mentions another sound, the one of the ciribiciaccola in fact, coming from the tower. But… what is it? It may be a nickname given to the monks, or maybe to the little columns of the bell tower, or it just might be the sound “ciri”, made by the storks that loved to nest on the tower, or the sound the young storks made when they scraped their beaks against the columns…
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