El Micalet
Octagonal Gothic bell tower where a ringer once lived, hand-ringing eleven bronze bells for decades.
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This guide to El Micalet, the Gothic bell tower in Valencia, centers on Mariano Folch, who lived inside it for more than sixty years starting in 1840, ringing its eleven bronze bells entirely by hand. You'll hear about the Casa del Campanero, the chamber built into the tower where he made his home two hundred steps above the street, and about the tower's long construction, begun under Andreu Julia in 1381. The guide also names the bells themselves, from the ancient Caterina, cast in 1305, to the tower's namesake bell recast in 1539.
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