campanile
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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
Defensive backs meet with a view of the campanile, Cal’s clock tower.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020
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
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
At night you can see the lights along the Lido, and all the campaniles over there in Venice.
From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick
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
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
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
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
The background of the scene is filled up by a semicircle of well-wooded hills, verdant with vines, fig, orange, olive and pomegranate trees, and sparkling with white country-seats, convents, and campanili.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various
The campanili hitherto described are all attached to churches, but there are others belonging to civic buildings some of which are of great importance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
