A few days ago the Bavarian city of Bamberg dedicated this
moving video to Italy afflicted by the health emergency for Covid-19: all its citizens, from the balconies and from the streets, sang for us, in Italian, "Bella Ciao".
This sign of closeness has touched us very much so we wished to return a heartfelt thanks to Bamberg citizens. We did it through the historical instruments preserved in our Observatories, made by the German instruments maker Carl Bamberg (1847-1892), namesake of the German town.
We want also to be closed to the people suffering for this emergency worldwide.