The following year a church with a ca. 12m high wooden bell tower was built in the facing square and the old bells were transferred. In 1850 the big bell was damaged again.
The old bell tower was demolished between July 20 and December 1851. In 1852, Silvestro Franceschi began excavating the foundations, 400 larch piles were driven into the landslide terrain and were covered in crushed and large stones. On August 18 of the same year, Father Rudiferia of Pieve blessed the first stone.
None of the three projects Franceschi presented to the Academy of Venice were accepted by the Municipality, which asked the Viennese engineer Bergmann to review them; but his project was not accepted either. His second project was finally accepted but he was nevertheless asked to lower the tower’s height from the 75m envisaged in the project to the present day 69,50m: three lines of rustication were removed from the basement. Construction was directed by Franceschi and finally all the refused bells were hoisted into the new bell tower in 1858, were they chimed for the first time on the night of Christmas Eve.
The bell tower cost a total of 150,000 Imperial florins, or 262,500 crowns. Including the bells and the clock, the total amount reached 200,000 florins or 350,000 crowns, approx. 5m Euros.
The bell concert is in B flat major, with the following melody: the small bell in F (Kg120), the second bell in D (Kg 192), the third bell in B flat (Kg 361), the fourth bell in F (Kg 860), the fifth bell in D (Kg 1,455) and finally the large bell in B flat (Kg 3,074). Three other bells complete the bell tower: the agony bell transferred from the Church of St. Catherine in 1781, the clock bell and the little fire bell.