campanile
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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
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
One of the most beautiful campaniles or bell-towers still standing is that at Evesham, in Worcestershire, which is a good specimen of Perpendicular architecture.
From Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them by Sidney Heath
The campanili are in plain masonry, the storeys being suggested only by blind arches or windows, there being neither pilaster strips nor string-courses.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
"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
S. Francesco is a fine Gothic church with two elegant campanili.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
These, if properly understood, resemble rather the old campanili of Italy, and suggest the work of Giotto.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
From the line, too, the campanili of Grado and Aquileia are visible, far away over the plain, dark against lagoon or sky in the evening, or flashing white in the morning sun.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
