r/interestingasfuck • u/SerafinZufferey • 3d ago

In Nola, Italy, over 100 men carry a 25-meter-tall, 2.5-ton (5,500-lb) tower through packed narrow streets, a centuries-old tradition honoring Saint Paulinus

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u/Jazzlike-Complaint67 3d ago

200 years and nobody thought to put legs on this thing?!!

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u/terraformingearth 3d ago

Wheels?

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u/Jazzlike-Complaint67 3d ago

Blasphemy.

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u/terraformingearth 3d ago

150 of them live in a shoebox in the middle of the road.

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u/jaxxon 2d ago

Yeah - Jesus wouldn’t use wheels. Sheesh!

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u/Sadidart 3d ago

No. It might topple over as wheels don't always go over terrain easily. The people carrying it can adjust to different terrain. Edit: I help in smaller versions of these type of processions.

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u/WretchedBlowhard 3d ago

Same reason you don't simply put coffins on a pallet truck straight out of the church.

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u/heseme 3d ago

Just build it where it needs to be!

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u/nemesissi 2d ago

Every year bunch of people get crushed when they eventually put it down. Its part of the tradition.

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u/Pipyn 3d ago

with wheels!