The church of Santa Maria a Coverciano the place the priest enthusiastically rang the bells.
In a chic suburb of Florence, nerves had begun to fray. Day and evening, in any respect hours, the bells of the native church Santa Maria a Coverciano rang incessantly. Priest Don Leonardo Guerri appeared to don’t have any mercy for his parishioners saved from working, stress-free or sleeping by the chimes. However, having lastly had an excessive amount of, the native residents have made their voices heard over the peals.
The “struggle of the bells”, because the native newspaper dubbed it, had been dragging on for 4 years. Residents have been subjected to the chimes a whole bunch of occasions a day. On holidays, the bells would ring each half hour. The proprietor of a takeaway joint immediately throughout the street from the church would hear the peals all through the day. But it surely was on the encompassing residents, he says, that the bells actually took their toll. “They could not sleep at evening,” he says.
The bell-ringing took its toll on surrounding companies and residents.
Inhabitants of the native space spent years turning desperately to authorized proceedings, petitions, and checks for noise air pollution in an effort to get some peace. Lastly, Tuscany’s regional company for environmental safety stepped in and issued the priest with a high quality. Guerri was required to pay a penalty of €2000. And informed to ease up on the chimes.
So, after years of lobbying, the extreme bell ringing has ceased and the suburb can go about their every day actions with out their ears ringing.
The priest has since declined to remark and rumours on his whereabouts abound. There’s speak that he is run away. However within the native bar the phrase is he is taking his revenge by enjoying the violin from the bell tower as a substitute.