There is a fragment of a bell devastated during the Vajont disaster in 1963, donated by the parish priest of Longarone, Don Augusto Antoniol. There is a small bell donated by Luigi Agnolin, the referee, in 1986, to the Arcobaleno Community in Feltre. There is a bell donated by Mario Rigoni Stern's son, inspired by his book "The Sergeant in the Snow" about the Russian Campaign and the Retreat from the Don River in 1942 and 1943. There is a small bell collected from the Treviso Eco-center and donated by Emmaus of Treviso. There is also a small bell donated by 150 workers from the Hydro plant in Feltre in front of the factory gate.
With a part of the bronze, copper, and lead from bells and small bells, but not only, donated from all over Italy and linked to 121 Italian stories, a new bell was born: the Bell of Italy. Conceived and created by kids, young people, educators, collaborators, volunteers, and friends of the Villa San Francesco Community in Facen di Pedavena, which welcomes minors and young people in serious family and personal difficulties, the Bell of Italy was also presented to the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. A symbol of peace, as written in the letter addressed to Mattarella, the Bell of Italy "has seen all the members of the Community and a thousand Italians and non-Italians bent over goodness, efforts, hope, pain, joy, study, illness, spirituality, hospitality, truth, who loved believing in the sound of the Bell, which looks at no one, on the contrary, loves everyone".
Alongside the Bell of Italy, bells and small bells, over 500 from 84 countries across five continents, there are also other symbols of peace, such as the bicycle donated by Sergio Sanvido, mechanic and collector, founder of the Bicycle Museum in Cesiomaggiore. And sport has always meant solidarity, support, rescue, sociality. Thus, there is also a small bell donated by the Italian Alpine Club of Pieve di Soligo, a piece of a basketball court from the Melbourne Olympics in 1956, recovered in Bologna at the AIA headquarters, a bell conceived and cast by Stefano Tedeschi, president of Fortitudo Basketball Bologna, and a small bell from the Sanctuary of San Vittore and Corona in Feltre, site of the first fresco by Vico Calabrò, an artist closely linked to the Giro d'Italia.
The exhibition, inaugurated on December 14th, will remain open until Easter 2026, from 9 am to 7 pm, at the Arcobaleno '86 Social Cooperative Onlus in Feltre, in the Museum of Dreams, Memory, Conscience, and Nativity Scenes.
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