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

The area was half-gentrified now, but it still held old corners and dark alleys, an abandoned burial ground and a church with an Italianate campanile standing guard over the boatyard and the chandlery.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

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 hour was very silent; the little towns and hamlets scattered beside Como, like clusters of white and rosy shells, dreamed on until thin music broke from their campaniles.

From The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts

Midnight sounds with an infinite melancholy from all the twenty campaniles of the city in the valley.

From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley

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 churches generally have a semicircular apse and flat wooden ceilings; those without campanili have bell-turrets on the west wall, many of them no longer in use.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

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

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

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