campanile

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

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

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

Anastasia, San Zenone, and several minor churches and campaniles; and at Como, Bergamo, Vicenza, Padua, Treviso, Cremona, Bologna, and many other cities and towns, good churches of pointed architecture are to be found.

From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith

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

Cypresses and campanili defined themselves in the landscape as the evening advanced.

From Evelyn Innes by George (George Augustus) Moore

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

As pink dawn blossomed in the sky, like a heavenly orchard, and the mountain tops were beaten into copper, we glided along the edge of the lake, past picturesque villages and campanili, and cypress trees.

From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson