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St Mark's Campanile (Italian: Campanile di San Marco, Venetian: Canpanièl de San Marco) is the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy.The current campanile is a reconstruction completed in 1912, the previous tower having collapsed in 1902.
Giotto's bell tower seen from the top of the Duomo. View from the tower. Giotto's Campanile (/ ˌ k æ m p ə ˈ n iː l i,-l eɪ /, also US: / ˌ k ɑː m-/, Italian: [kampaˈniːle]) is a free-standing campanile (bell tower) that is part of the complex of buildings that make up Florence Cathedral on the Piazza del Duomo in Florence, Italy.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: torre pendente di Pisa [ˈtorre penˈdɛnte di ˈpiːza,-ˈpiːsa] [1]), or simply the Tower of Pisa (torre di Pisa), is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of Pisa Cathedral. It is known for its nearly four-degree lean, the result of an unstable foundation.
Tower building: Clock tower: Italy: Palazzolo sull'Oglio [49] 34: Springfield Campanille: 91.44 m (300.0 ft) 4: Yes: 1913: Freestanding Tower: Bell Tower (original) Clock & Bell Tower (current) USA: Springfield, Massachusetts: Currently not open to the public. With the addition of the clock now the third tallest freestanding clock tower in the ...
Today the bell tower is a stable monument mainly thanks to those steel pylons which will hopefully give the Garisenda tower a second life. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at ...
The Torrazzo is the bell tower of the Cathedral of Cremona, Lombardy, in northern Italy.. The Torrazzo measures 112.54 metres (369 + 1 ⁄ 4 ft), [1] and it is known as the third tallest brickwork bell tower in the world, the first being the tower of St. Martin's Church in Landshut, Bavaria, and the second at the Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium.
A bell tower may also in some traditions be called a belfry, though this term may also refer specifically to the substructure that houses the bells and the ringers rather than the complete tower. The tallest free-standing bell tower in the world, 113.2 metres (371 ft) high, is the Mortegliano Bell Tower, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, Italy.