campanile
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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
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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
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Round O’s can be completed; campaniles are still to finish.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
One by one the campaniles of Venice loomed, dark pillars in the white sky.
From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick
The campanili of the churches of S. Nicolas and S. Michele in Orticaia, both in Pisa, are also inclined to a slight extent.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
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
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
In this crude light, our breweries ceased to be palaces in the night, our campanili again became chimneys.
From Our House And London out of Our Windows by Elizabeth Robins Pennell