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Just back from a trip to Ischgl and we are intrigued as to why they ring the bells every morning at 06:45, no one could explain the rationale in resort so thought I'd pose the question to the snowheads massive.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@marcellus, church bells?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I didn't think they rang church bells in Lent.
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Think that's a matter of choice? There is quite an ornate Calvary a few hundred metres above the church. If you sit up there you can see the kids racing round the schoolyard and it reminds you that lots of people of course actually live, work (and pray) there too.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| nozawaonsen wrote: |
| @marcellus, church bells? |
Yes, they did sound like the church bells and seemed to be 3 sets of about a dozen chimes each set.
| pam w wrote: |
| I didn't think they rang church bells in Lent. |
Well they were last week, everyday 06:45!
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It is the Angelus Bell. Three sets of three, sometimes followed by a peal. They might miss out the peal during Lent. Bells ring like this in Monetier every day. Happens again later in the day too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus
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@Hells Bells, could they vary the time as your source says 06:00 and definitately more than 3 in each set.
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Our local church used to ring the angelus at 11 am. 0645 is not too bad though - gets you up in good time for the first lift! 
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That's true pam, we were always up in time for 1st lift...... Just never quite made it :/
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Thought it was to get the peasants out of bed and into the fields to work ; from before they had clocks?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Another equally plausible explanation @albob,
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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The church bells sound in my village and throughout my valley at 06:00 every day from Monday to Saturday - gets us all out of bed theoretically. Sunday they ring at 07:00 to get us to mass on time! Simples. Schools start at 08:00 over here so getting the little buggers out of bed in time to get the bus is important 
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Tourist gimmick.
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You know it makes sense.
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| albob wrote: |
| Thought it was to get the peasants out of bed and into the fields to work |
Not nice to talk about the poor lifties that way.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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These are the lifties that will be digging you up if ever you encounter an avalanche 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Catholics
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| marcellus wrote: |
| @Hells Bells, could they vary the time as your source says 06:00 and definitately more than 3 in each set. |
I did ask when I heard them in Monetier, and was told it was the Angelus bell.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Angelus was at 12 when I was a lass
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@holidayloverxx, it sounds more than once a day in most Catholic countries.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Hells Bells, once was enough for us I guess!
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Angelus can be sounded three times per day, but the timings of 6am, noon and 6pm are only rough, and are probably timed to coincide with the start, lunchtime and end of the working day in the village in which they are heard. They also don't have to be sounded three times a day. Monetier's church is close to several hotels, I guess their guests wouldn't be happy to be woken at 6, but perhaps 6.45-7am is more acceptable. They also have a Louis XIV clock which sounds the hour twice, so you don't miss it.
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