Caicai travels around the world: a simple, profound and magical town in cremona.

The origin of Caicai and cremona, because when I was watching Milan Cathedral, I suddenly remembered that there was a magnificent cathedral in the movie The Red Violin, and the church was dozens of kilometers away from Milan, so I jumped on a small train the next day and went to the ancient town in the movie. ...

The northern Italian city of cremona is only about 83 kilometers away from Milan. There is a train between Milan and cremona every two hours. Although the transportation is convenient, there is not much intersection between the two places. Milan's fashion and noise do not exist here at all. These two places stand shoulder to shoulder, each with its own reservations and characteristics. We can't compare, let alone compare. If I have to say, I can only say that a small train with only a few carriages can easily send passengers from the busy world focus to another quiet world that seems to be derailed from the world.

For ordinary people, cremona is a low-key nostalgic ancient city; But for music lovers, she is a very famous hometown of handmade violins. Even so, cremona has never used these two auras to develop tourism, nor has it ever used its geographical advantages to touch the light of Milan. For cremona people, people who know how to travel or love classical music will naturally come here.

Cremona Railway Station is a small railway station with simple structure. Because it is located on the edge of cremona, it is said that there are no traces of medieval relics here. There is a sea of people here, and there are dazzling window displays everywhere. It's like a shopping mall, and it feels like it belongs to an ordinary European town.

When I got off the train and looked around, I thought I got off at the wrong station. After some exploration and long journey, I successfully stood in Comunale Square in cremona, looking up at the magnificent cathedral through the crowd passing through the morning market booth.

The cremona market falls every Wednesday and Saturday morning. On the day when the market is held, stalls selling various commodities will occupy every corner of the square. Unconsciously, I came to cremona on Wednesday and experienced the market in this small town. I always feel lucky when I think about it.

Cremona Cathedral was built at the beginning of12nd century, and it is one of the most beautiful and magnificent churches in northern Italy.

The architectural project of this church was created according to the majestic Romanesque architectural style prevailing at that time. However, due to the slow progress of the construction project and the influence of the reform and innovation of artistic values over time, the completed cremona Cathedral can be seen at a glance that it has the characteristics of various architectural factions-taking bold and solemn Romanesque as the basic framework and turning to religious Gothic and luxurious and prosperous Renaissance style as the architectural context. In the final stage before completion, even the eccentric and irrational Baroque style symbolizing pleasure and passion was incorporated into the construction of this church. The architectural styles of various factions and departments are obvious in cremona Cathedral, so that today's cathedral gives people a chaotic impression that is both sacred and mysterious.

The cathedral faces south. The morning sun rises from its left every day and then sets from its right. Because most of the walls of the cathedral are inlaid with marble, the walls appear crystal clear under the sunlight. The exquisite carvings on the stone pillars are also particularly lifelike because of the sunlight. Although the cathedral is so dazzling, the Cremona Bell Tower (Torrazzo), which stands side by side with it, is not far behind, attracting attention with a height of 1 12.57 meters.

Architecturally speaking, this towering Cremona bell tower is the third tallest brick bell tower in the world, and the clock embedded in this bell tower is the largest constellation clock in the world, with a diameter of 8 meters. Standing on the flat ground and looking at the clock tower and the giant constellation clock on it, people can't help but feel small. Just when I was amazed at these two buildings, I suddenly found an open door at the bottom of the bell tower. There is an introduction about the bell tower outside the door, and there is a small counter for ticket sales inside the door.

Tickets for Cremona Bell Tower are 5 euros, and the opening hours are divided into two parts: morning 10 to afternoon 12.30 and 2.30 to 5.30 pm.

The conductor told me that there are 502 steps in the bell tower. As long as you climb these steps, you will see the beautiful scenery of cremona surrounded by vast green villages and the spectacular layout of ancient Rome in the town. He also said that looking down from the top floor of the bell tower, the ancient palace opposite the bell tower and the internal buildings of today's city hall will also be unobstructed.

The building surrounded by red bricks opposite the bell tower is not only an ancient palace with high historical value, but also a busy city hall for residents today. It is also the violin exhibition hall in cremona, the hometown of violin. This building reserves a lot of space to display 12 precious old pianos made by local pianists. This 12 precious old piano has a history of at least 300 years, among which 10 is a violin, a viola and a cello.

They are exquisite in appearance and melodious in tone. There are also several masterpieces by the three most famous violin makers of the year, Amati, Strapari and Guarneri. They are priceless. If the violin is the queen of musical instruments, then these violins made by the master piano maker Kemona in the 1600- 1750 exhibition hall are the queens.

No one knows why, in such a big world, only this little cremona can come all the way from afar to protect the handmade piano industry. Some people think it is because she is excellent, while others think it is providence. In any case, cremona has always been a holy place for violin making. Even today, in this small land, there are about 150 violin workshops, and some low-key violinists stay in their own homes to make violins silently.

Violin workshops in cremona are all over the streets of this city. They are like little daisies in spring, blooming in every corner. Walking in every ancient stone alley in this small town, you can meet a piano-making workshop or a specialty store selling handmade violins within a few steps.

This violin is displayed in the violin exhibition hall, and its body is reddish. It was made by piano master Guarnery who started from scratch. His violin was once favored by the famous violin and composer Niccolo Paganini.

The violin shop is gorgeous, but the piano-making workshop is hidden behind the window, which is a bit mysterious. The window design of the piano-making workshop is very simple-the piano-making tools, violin structural drawings and semi-finished piano bodies of all sizes are generally used by the piano makers for window design, which makes people understand the nature of the work hidden behind the window at a glance.

I didn't want to order a violin, and I didn't make an appointment. Driven by curiosity, I pushed open the door of a piano-making workshop. After I opened the door, I couldn't help apologizing to the pianist for his thrilling expression.

My reckless appearance obviously disturbed the pianist who was concentrating on playing the piano. When he turned his eyes from Qin to me, he politely asked me what I needed. I told him frankly that I wanted to take some photos of Qin Fang, but he didn't laugh.

From the chat, I learned that this gentle pianist is Luca Tenore, one of the new generation of young pianists in cremona. He comes from Sicily and is a famous young cellist. Besides practicing and performing, he also maintains and simply repairs his violin. In this way, he gradually found that studying the structure of the piano body is actually a very challenging thing, so he gradually became interested in the study of the piano body. So he traveled thousands of miles to cremona to learn how to make handmade violins. He never expected this day to come, so he took root here.

"To some people, cremona is a beautiful town, simple, profound and full of magic." Luca said so.

After leaving the piano-making workshop in Lucca, I immediately walked back and forth to the railway station.

Along the way, I had no other thoughts, only focused on walking towards the railway station. But when I got on the train and felt a little relaxed, I remembered the beauty of this day's trip. I took my camera out of my backpack, dug out the scenes of cremona hidden in the camera and watched it again. When I saw the photo of Luca making a piano, I couldn't help but feel excited-he was so absorbed in making pianos for others in the dim light.

Looking at that photo, I remembered for the first time that he came to this town with a big backpack and a violin. Later, I remembered that he described cremona as a simple, profound, beautiful and magical town.

As Luca said, cremona really has an inexplicable magic that deeply attracts people, and I think I am one of them.