Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Why stop ringing the bells of the Cathedral of Girona? – CDN (press release)

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After almost two decades of complaints of the owners of a downtown hotel in the capital the bells of the cathedral of the Spanish province of Girona stopped playing the hours and quarters on 6 January. Owners accommodation Hotel Historic , discomfort initially transmitted to the operator of ecclesiastical building, the Cathedral Chapter, without getting an answer they liked a solution body.

complaints to the various municipal governments also prospered until the until recently mayor and current president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, mediated in the matter and the rules applied noise in the street.

This decision has led to the bells fall silent from midnight to 06:45 hours and thus put an end to the protests of hotel guests, according to their owners, they were continuous and had led even cancellations of booked nights after sleeping one night in the hotel. Puigdemont met several times with officials from the cathedral and the neighbors and, after checking that it could not muffle the sound to reduce its impact night, it was decided to apply the noise ordinance on public roads.

despite the opposition of the Cathedral Chapter, trying to keep a tradition, the last day of Reyes was the last in which bells rang before abide by the rules. Some neighbors have shown opponents to the measure, although other temples have been through similar situations, one of the last church town of Begur Girona, which last year failed to give rooms and hours at night by complaints . customers of a hotel

Source: abc.es


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