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
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
Through this, as it quivered onwards, one saw a limitless sea of roofs; and sharp and clear, for they were still in light, stood out the lofty campaniles of Ste. Chapelle and St. Severin.
From Orrain A Romance by S. Levett-Yeats
From San Miniato and the Bello Sguardo one looks down far more directly upon the domes and palaces and campaniles of Florence spread right at one's feet.
From Science in Arcady by Grant Allen
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
Florence raises his wonderful bell-tower, that lily among campanili, to the sky; and preserves two chapels of S. Croce, illuminated by him with paintings from the stories of S. Francis and S. John.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
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
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
