campanile
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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
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
The campaniles of modern industry rise slim and tall into the air.
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
These Italian campaniles had either flat summits, or were crowned with a low, unimportant roof.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various
S. Francesco is a fine Gothic church with two elegant campanili.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
Cypresses and campanili defined themselves in the landscape as the evening advanced.
From Evelyn Innes by George (George Augustus) Moore
Florence raises his wonderful bell-tower, that lily among campanili, to the sky; and preserves two chapels of S. Croce, illuminated by him with paintings from the stories of S. Francis and S. John.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
The campanili hitherto described are all attached to churches, but there are others belonging to civic buildings some of which are of great importance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
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
