Astronomical Clock – Messina Campanile

The duomo (cathedral) and campanile (bell tower) of Messina (Sicily, Italy) has to be rebuilt more than once. The cathedral had to be almost entirely rebuilt in 1919 and 1920, following the 1908 earthquake, and again in 1943. The current campanile was built in 1933 by the Ungerer Company of Strasbourg.

The current Messina Duomo and the Campanile

before 1783 earthquake

1784

1790s

The same Campanile in different time.

 

  The current campanile. The scheme here is by Ungerer Company of Strasbourg. 

 

La tétralogie représentant, sous le signe de la Croix, le symbolisme de l'horloge. The symbolism of Messina Campanile is represented here as a cross. The mechanic for the astronomical spheres is represented in the bottom cross’ arm, the Cosmographia: the moon phase, the planetary, the calendar, and the clock.

  Schéma des déclenchements des divers mécanismes de l'horloge

Planetarium	Schéma des engrenages du planétaire. Noticed they already placed Pluto into the solar system model.
Calendarium

Source: Lorin68 (Picasa), Wikimedia Commons