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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

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

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

It would need a Hans Andersen to describe the feelings of the other Venetian campaniles when S. Mark's tall column fell.

From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley

Rome is probably the source from which the Saxon windows were derived, the example in Worth church being identically the same as those in the Roman campanili.

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

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

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

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




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