Sine sole silet

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“Sine sole silet” (Without the sun it is silent)
Sundial by Giovanni Zaffi, 1869
Piazza Municipale
Ferrara, May 2022

Anno 2016

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“Anno 2016” sundial
Bezručova
Bratislava, September 2017

Plaça del Sol

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Sundial by Joaquim Camps
Plaça del Sol
Vila de Gràcia
Barcelona, March 2017

“If we enter the neighborhood of Gràcia we will discover two very curious sundials. There is a sundial in Plaza del Sol, of course. It is an empty hemisphere, made of bronze, encircled by the twelve signs of the zodiac, in which the time lines are recorded. Astrolabe, he's called. The author is Joaquim Camps, who also made the sculpture of Rovira and Trias located in Plaça Rovira. The highlight of the neighborhood is the one on the facade of the ‘Lluïsos de Gràcia’ (Plaça del Nord), a cultural entity of great tradition, founded in 1855; this is a watch of painted sun and a rectangle of four meters wide, with two angels on both sides that hold it imaginatively. It was designed in 1990 by two brothers, Jordi and Josep Nogué.” (Barcelona: Watch clocks, El sol i el temps)

Sundial

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Sundial
Gamča (Gymnázium), by Ödön Lechner, 1908
Grösslingová
Bratislava, September 2017

Cadran solaire

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Cadran solaire (Sundial) by Daniel Bry, 1986
Jardin Émile-Gallé
Rue Neuve-des-Boulets, Quartier de la Roquette
Quartier Sainte-Marguerite, 11th arrondissement
Paris, July 2006

Lycée Buffon Sundial

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Sundial on a wall of the Lycée Buffon
Rue de Vaugirard
Quartier Necker, 15th arrondissement
Paris, July 2014

Quand tu Sonneras

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“Quand tu Sonneras, je Chanteray” (When you will ring, I will sing)
Sundial on a wall
Rue de l'Abreuvoir, Montmartre
Quartier des Grandes-Carrières, 18e arrondissement
Paris, July 2009

“Not all the inscriptions are somber. A whimsical blue chicken on a sundial at 4, rue de l'Abreuvoir in Montmartre clucks, ‘Quand tu sonneras, je chanteray’ -- ‘When you ring, I sing,’ a humorous reference to the time when chickens were alarm clocks. Sundials ask us to contemplate, not only time and its passage, but also when and why humans began to divide time into hours, a development that was not, at first, universally embraced, as the Roman comic playwright Plautus (circa 200 B.C.) made clear, condemning the man who set up a sundial in the marketplace ‘to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces.’” (Susan Allport, Solar-Powered Timekeeping in Paris, New York Times)

Horas non numero nisi serenas

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“Horas non numero nisi serenas” (I do not count the hours unless they are sunny)
“The Only Hours I Tell Are Fine”
Pellipar House sundial
Cloak Lane, City of London
London, January 2008

Hora fugit stat jus

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“Hora fugit stat jus” (Time passes justice remains)
Quai des Orfèvres, Île de la Cité
Quartier Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, 1st arrondissement
Paris, July 2010

Fountain and Sundial

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Fountain of the Cité Beauharnais, sundial by Daniel Bry
Quartier Sainte-Marguerite, 11th arrondissement
Paris, July 2006

Cadran solaire

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Cadran solaire (sundial)
Rue des Archives, Le Marais
Quartier des Archives, 3rd arrondissement
Paris, July 2002