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campanile

[kam-puh-nee-lee, -neel, kahm-pah-nee-le] / ˌkæm pəˈni li, -ˈnil, ˌkɑm pɑˈni lɛ /


NOUN
bell tower
Synonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK
NOUN
steeple
Synonyms


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The proposed building is 11 stories tall, approximately the same height as Storke Tower, the campanile that is the campus’s visual icon.

From Slate Nov. 2, 2021

The campanile, or bell tower, is the second tallest in the city, after San Marco’s.

From Washington Times Sep. 21, 2019

In the piazza itself, visitors wait patiently in horrendously long queues to enter the basilica or take the lift up the campanile for views over the Serenissima.

From The Guardian May 1, 2018

Take any road in Italy, look up, and you’ll see a lovely hilltop town: a campanile, a castello, a few newer buildings spilling down the slope, as if expelled for the crime of ugliness.

From The New Yorker Apr. 20, 2015

We could see the campanile and the clock-tower.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

All is organized rather classically, with human-scaled plazas and passages punctuated by quirky campaniles.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2025

The majority of American architects, then still trained in the Beaux-Arts manner, favoured a traditionalist approach, their designs ranging from teetering romanesque campaniles to gothic piles.

From The Guardian Sep. 12, 2017

His landscapes are bright with unlikely color, his figures dressed in gay costumes of some imagined peasantry, his buildings festooned with cupolas, arches and campaniles of an architecture he has never seen.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hour was very silent; the little towns and hamlets scattered beside Como, like clusters of white and rosy shells, dreamed on until thin music broke from their campaniles.

From The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts

Through this, as it quivered onwards, one saw a limitless sea of roofs; and sharp and clear, for they were still in light, stood out the lofty campaniles of Ste. Chapelle and St. Severin.

From Orrain A Romance by S. Levett-Yeats

"How long a time shall we spend in Padua, Countess?" asked the Chauffeulier as we came within sight of a gateway, some domes and campanili.

From My Friend the Chauffeur by Frederic Lowenheim

A city wall follows the outline of the hill, from which the towers of the cathedral and the palace, with other cupolas and red-brick campanili, spring; while cypresses and olive-gardens stretch downwards to the plain.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds

The Romanesque church of S. Abondio outside the town was founded in 1013 and consecrated in 1095; it has two fine campanili, placed at the ends of the aisles close to the apse.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various

As pink dawn blossomed in the sky, like a heavenly orchard, and the mountain tops were beaten into copper, we glided along the edge of the lake, past picturesque villages and campanili, and cypress trees.

From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

All the sunset had paled, and the campanili of Venice Rose like the masts of a mighty fleet moored there in the water.

From Poems by William Dean Howells




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