Xavier Pallàs plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish valley below with ...

It was St. Therese Catholic Church ringing their 5 p.m. chimes. The church bells were playing beautiful music. If everyone would or could stop to take a moment and listen to the church chimes ...

The clock in the tower of St Michael and All Angels Church in Loppington, was gifted to the Parish in 1882 by Reverend ...

JOANETES, Spain — Xavier Pallàs plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish valley below with the reverberating peal of a church bell.

Church bells used to be a vehicle for sharing information with communities. Today, they are background sounds. But a small ...

Many of Spain’s church bell towers that were automized in the 1970s and ‘80s are in a dire state, said Pallàs, who witnessed widespread problems while researching the belfries of Garrotxa, a ...

For most, church bells are just a quaint bit of automated background noise. But Pallàs and his 18 students at the Vall d’en Bas School of Bell Ringers are trying to change that by resuscitating ...

JOANETES, Spain (AP) — Xavier Pallàs plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish valley below with the reverberating peal of a church bell.