Friday, March 11, 2011

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After several years standing, returned today to run the clock Lugo Consistory

After several years stopped by a malfunction that seemed irreversible, and after strenuous attempts to get it going, today resumed its activities the old clock of the consistory of Lugo, installed in one of the two towers which was the palace of the Marquis de Ombreiro, a building designed in 1738 Caveiro Antonio Ferro, built in stone masonry with an arcade of eight arches, one of the best examples of civil Baroque Galician. However the clock tower was not built until 1871. The City announced today that it has regained its activity after "an intense and thorough work" by Vigo watchmaker Fulgencio Pagan, who took charge of the repair.
For it working again had to change three pieces of the anchor of escape, that were damaged.
Baroque facade of the Consistory of Lugo, with the tower and the clock
were made by the company Guillette and Johnston, heir to the company Guillet and Bland, that made the clock in 1871 and reached Lugo last December but had to return them to England to I make small adjustments, as when mounted on the machine was found to have a mismatch of a few millimeters.
The arrangement is complicated because the company that manufactured it used an escape mechanism, called the escape of gravity, which is equipped with a pendulum very long and narrow, rare.
Two watchmakers worked on the placement of new parts and setting the clock, until they got it working again.
clock history dates back to an agreement by the municipal corporation of January 1, 1865, when he mentioned the need to have a clock in the city hall tower, noting that the cathedral almost always gave the hour ahead.
Years later, in 1871, he fulfilled the desire of the corporation, even though the clock was originally destined for the cathedral of Malaga, but there the place they had prepared it was small.
The Session chairs the beautiful Plaza Mayor, where he also erected the Arts Circle and the convent of San Francisco. The venue was medieval space where the market was held, in the historic Roman wall surrounding the Patrimony of Humanity. Still remain of the old plaza Some of their houses with 2 or 3 floors and arcades on the ground floor and the bandstand. In 1914 he took the power presiding over the square to build gardens. In its lower part was full of noble elms, which had to be cut because of an epidemic irreversible, and is now much clearer, with some smaller trees. Also disappeared four bronze lions real Sargadelos factory, whose views are now a source of the city.
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