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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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Just next to the lion’s jaw you see the palace itself, and the campanile of Piazza San Marco nearby.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2022

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

The area was half-gentrified now, but it still held old corners and dark alleys, an abandoned burial ground and a church with an Italianate campanile standing guard over the boatyard and the chandlery.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

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

Rome followed with her square campaniles, whose arcaded chambers looked down on a hundred cloisters.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various

The arrangement is repeated in numberless campaniles throughout Italy.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin

This is the type generally adopted in the campanili of Venice, where there are no string-courses.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

S. Francesco is a fine Gothic church with two elegant campanili.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins

For though sweet are the bells that ring out from the tall campanili of Rome, Ah! they are not the dearer and sweeter ones, tuned with the memory of home.

From Poems by Denis Florence MacCarthy

In this crude light, our breweries ceased to be palaces in the night, our campanili again became chimneys.

From Our House And London out of Our Windows by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

We have noted that at Rome and Ravenna towers formed no part of the original basilican plan, but were added later as campanili.

From The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson




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