Campanile
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A campanile (pronounced [ˌkæmp ə ˈniːl i]) is, especially in Italy, a free-standing bell-tower (Italian campana, 'bell'), often adjacent to a church or cathedral.
The most famous campanile is probably the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Other notable campaniles include St Mark's Campanile in Venice's St Mark's Square. Campaniles outside of Italy are often modeled after St. Mark's. At the beginning of the nineteen eighties the theme Campanile was revised by H. R. Hiegel and Florian Mausbach.
After a spectacular design by architect H.R. Hiegel dating from the year 1983, in 1990 Helmut Jahn built the Frankfurt Messeturm.
Modern campaniles often contain carillons, a musical instrument traditionally comprised of at least 23 large bells which are sounded by cables, chains, or cords connected to a keyboard.
These can be found at some college and university campuses.
In modern construction, rather than using heavy bells the sound may be produced by the striking of small metal rods whose vibrations are amplified electronically and sounded through loudspeakers.
List of campaniles
This is a list of campaniles found on Wikipedia:
- National Carillon, Canberra, ACT (50 meters tall; 53 bells)
- Swan Bells, Perth, Western Australia (82.5 metres tall; 18 bells)
- Ladner Clock Tower broadcasts the carillion of the University of British Columbia (121 feet tall; originally 330 bronze bars, now fully digital)
- Roter Turm, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt (ca. 80m tall; with 76 bells world's largest carillon in a campanile) [1]
- St Mark's Campanile, Venice (100 meters tall)
- Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa
- Giotto's Bell Tower, Florence
- The National War Memorial Carillon, Wellington. 74 Bells. 50.6m. [2]
- Denny Chimes, the campanile/carillon at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
- Sather Tower, "The Campanile" and carillion of the University of California, Berkeley (307 feet tall; 61 bells): the subject of the Campanile Movie.
- Storke Tower at the University of California, Santa Barbara is 175' with 61 bells.
- California Tower at Balboa Park (San Diego, California) (198 feet tall, 100 bell symphonic carillon). Built in 1914 for 1915-1916 Pan-American Expo.
- Century Tower, at the University of Florida in Gainesville, is 157 feet tall and has a cast-bell carillon with 61 bells.
- Kessler Campanile at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, built for the 1996 Olympic Games (80 feet tall)
- Campanile and carillion at Iowa State University (110 feet tall; 50 bells)
- Campanile at the University of Northern Iowa
- World War II Memorial Carillon and Campanile at the University of Kansas(120 feet tall; 53 bells)
- Campanile next to City Hall in Springfield, Massachusetts, actually part of the Municipal Group, the city's classical government center.
- Campanile at Oregon State University (68 feet tall; 5 bells)
- Murchison Memorial Tower, the campanile at Trinity University, San Antonio (166 feet tall; 4 bells)
- Carillon Tower at University of Wisconsin, Madison (featuring 56 bells and weekly concerts)
Other uses
Campanile is also the name of the Palo Alto High School newspaper, and the Rice University yearbook.
See also
External links
- Giotto's Bell tower, Florence virtual reality movie and pictures
- H.R. Hiegel's design
- Sather Tower at University of California, Berkeley
- The Campanile at Berkeley from the UC Berkeley Wiki
- An article from the University of Alabama Crimson White about the day-to-day operation of the schools Campanile
- Ladner Clock Tower at UBC
- More about the Ladner Clock Tower at UBC
