Example sentences for: campanile

How can you use “campanile” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Its two destinies come together in the Piazza del Duomo, where open-air cafés and ice cream parlors look up a long monumental staircase to the Arab-Norman campanile and polychrome mosaic façade of the Romanesque cathedral, built as a symbol of the republic’s glory.

  • Its collapse fortunately hurt no one, but did crush Jacopo Sansovino’s beautiful 16th-century Loggetta, equally lovingly restored as the entrance to the campanile’s elevator.

  • The piazza’s beloved Campanile (Bell Tower), at 99 m (324 ft) is the highest structure in the city, for 10 centuries its belfry, lighthouse, weather vane, and gun turret.

  • Just four minutes by vaporetto from the Piazzetta, on its own little island, is the church of San Giorgio Maggiore; its campanile offers the most photogenic view of the city and its lagoon.

  • The first of its glories is the free-standing campanile, designed by the multi-talented Giotto.


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