The faade is extended to the camarin delos campaneros or the enclosed passageway to the belfry which used to be the bell-ringers quarters, thus making the church look even bigger.
A large number of bell-ringers were electrocuted as a result.
It weighs almost 13 tonnes (28 thousand pounds) and requires 12 bell-ringers to toll it.
The cannon was to give the sign for exact noon for the bell-ringers of the city's churches.
There was recently a group of bell-ringers who were accused of making too much noise and were prevented from ringing the bells.
And what is true in politics is true in every walk of life; it is true of doctors, trade unionists, botanists, bell-ringers and businessmen.
At last the ploughman, filled with desire to go one verse better than his opponent, burst out into the very song for which the bell-ringer was patiently waiting.
He once set his heart upon learning a very long ballad off a fellow bell-ringer, a ploughman in a neighbouring village.
