Sundial in Rovate (VA)

 

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Place: Rovate (VA)
        latit. 45° 42' 36" N
        long. 8° 50' 40" E

Double vertical sundial on a declining wall 9° east

Polar style and gnomonic hole

French hour lines and analemmas on time zone hours, declination lines for solstices, equinoxes and other zodiac lines, local noon line.

Motto : Homo tempus metirit, tempus hominem

Design
Gian Luigi Carabelli

Decoration
Irene Cornacchia



 



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