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

The fields were bare and wet; a long way away 1 could see a campanile rising out of the plain.

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 latter are exceedingly good; the grace of the whole building being chiefly dependent on the inequality of size in its cupolas, and pretty grouping of the two campaniles behind them.

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

The campaniles of modern industry rise slim and tall into the air.

From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 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

The campanili of S. Zenone, Verona, and the cathedrals of Siena and Prato, differ from those already mentioned in that they owe their decoration to the alternating courses of black and white marble.

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

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

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

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