The birth of the bells - several days or weeks after the fusion, the bells are lifted from the casting pit - Pasquale Marinelli brushes away the remaining dust to check the motif details on the bronze bell.
Pontificia Fonderia di Campane or Pontifical Bell Foundry of the Marinelli family in the mountain village of Agnone in the region of Molise in southern Italy.
Twenty seven generations of the Marinelli family have been making bronze bells in the foundry for almost 1000 years, continuing the ancient artisanal techniques today.