campanile

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

I remembered it as a little white town with a campanile in a valley.

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

These bells were made of coloured sugar and were hung in campaniles of barley-sugar, whose domes were made of gilded crusts.

From The City Curious by Jean de Bosschère

Faded towns and tall campaniles seemed to pass by in a ghost-like procession, which was interrupted only by the arrival of the diligence at the various stages, where we had to endure long, weary halts.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie

What slender campanili grew By bays, the peacock's neck in hue; Where, here and there, on sandy beaches15 A milky-belled amaryllis blew.

From Poems on Travel by Various

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

Neither at Ravenna nor at Rome did bell-towers originally form part of the plan of the basilica: the round campanili of both churches at Ravenna are certainly later additions.

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

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

Here and there on points of vantage, where the hill-slopes sink into the plain, cluster white villages with flower-like campanili.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown