Campanile

St. Mark's campanile, Venice, Italy

The campanile at Iowa State University with a 50-bell carillon, Ames, Iowa

Sather Tower at University of California, Berkeley with a 61-bell carillon

File:Urbanova veža.jpg St. Urban Tower in Košice, Slovakia

The campanile of Old South Church in Boston rises to 264 feet.

LSU's Memorial Tower in Baton Rouge

The 252 foot high Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

File:Nevyansk tower.jpg The Leaning Tower of Nevyansk.

A campanile (pronounced [ˌkæmp ə ˈniːl e]) 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:

Australia

• National Carillon, Canberra, ACT (50 meters tall; 53 bells)
• Swan Bells, Perth, Western Australia (82.5 metres tall; 18 bells)

Canada

• Ladner Clock Tower broadcasts the carillon of the University of British Columbia (121 feet tall; originally 330 bronze bars, now fully digital)

Germany

• Roter Turm (de), Halle, Saxony-Anhalt (ca. 80m tall; with 76 bells world's largest carillon in a campanile)

Italy

• St Mark's Campanile, Venice (100 meters tall)
• Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa
• Giotto's Bell Tower, Florence

Ireland

• University of Dublin, Trinity College.

New Zealand

• The National War Memorial Carillon, Wellington. 74 Bells. 50.6m. [1]

Slovakia

• St. Urban Tower, Košice

United States

Alabama

• Denny Chimes, the campanile/carillon at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

California

• Sather Tower, "The Campanile" and carillon of the University of California, Berkeley (307 feet tall; 61 bells): the subject of the Campanile Movie.
• Carillon Tower, "The Bell Tower" at the University of California, Riverside is 161' with 48 bells and was dedicated to the University in 1966.
• 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.

Colorado

• Daniels & Fisher Tower, popularly the D & F Tower in downtown Denver, at 330 feet tall was the third-tallest structure in the United States and tallest west of the Mississippi River when it was built in 1910.

Florida

• Century Tower, at the University of Florida in Gainesville, is 157 feet tall and has a cast-bell carillon with 61 bells.

• Campanile, at Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, Florida, has a 43 cast-bell carillon.

Georgia

• Kessler Campanile at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, built for the 1996 Olympic Games (80 feet tall)

Iowa

• Campanile and carillon at Iowa State University (110 feet tall; 50 bells)
• Campanile at the University of Northern Iowa

Indiana

• Brandt Campanile, at Valparaiso University near the Chapel of the Resurrection and the Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources, is a chime standing 143 feet high with 12 bells.

Kansas

• World War II Memorial Carillon and Campanile at the University of Kansas (120 feet tall; 53 bells)

Louisiana

• Louisiana State University World War One Memorial Bell Tower (Memorial Tower)
  • Also known as the Campanile, this 175-foot structure was built in 1923 and dedicated in 1926 as a memorial to Louisianans who died in WWI. On the rotunda walls are bronze plaques bearing the names of those to whom the tower is dedicated. Chimes ring every quarter hour. The cornerstone in front of the tower was excavated from the ruins of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy in Pineville (LSU's first incarnation), one half describes the history, while the other half is inscribed with the names of the first board of supervisors and faculty.
  • The plaza area in front of Memorial Tower has served as a place of both ceremony and celebration. The University’s annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony takes place on the plaza and attracts many visitors to the area. In addition, Student Government holds the formal installation for its new President and Vice President each spring. There are also several traditions attached to it, especially kissing in the plaza at midnight on Valentine's Day.

Massachusetts

• Campanile next to City Hall in Springfield, Massachusetts, a part of the Municipal Group, the city's neoclassical government center.
• Campanile of Old South Church in Boston, a 246' Venetian-Gothic bell tower by Charles Amos Cummings.
• Campanile Pilgrim Monument, Provincetown, Massachusetts, a 252 foot granite tower by Charles Amos Cummings.

Michigan

• Burton Tower at the University of Michigan (212 feet tall; 55 bells)
• Lurie Tower at the University of Michigan (167 feet tall; 60 bells)
• Beaumont Tower at Michigan State University (105 feet tall; 49 bells)
• University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, in the middle of campus

Oregon

• Campanile at Oregon State University (68 feet tall; 5 bells)

South Dakota

• Coughlin Campanile at South Dakota State University(167 feet tall;The tower's chimes cover three octaves and can be "played" manually from an organ.)

Texas

• Albritton Bell Tower, Texas A&M University, College Station (138 feet tall; 49 bells)
• Murchison Memorial Tower, the campanile at Trinity University, San Antonio (166 feet tall; 4 bells)

Vermont

• Adams Bell Tower, Norwich University, Northfield (47 bells) [2]

Wisconsin

• Carillon Tower at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison (featuring 56 bells and weekly concerts)

United Kingdom

• Trent Building
• Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower

South Africa

• Port Elizabeth (Erected to commemorate the landing of the 1820 Settlers)

Other uses

Campanile is also the name of the Palo Alto High School newspaper, and the Rice University yearbook.

See also

• Belfry
• Carillon
• Clock tower

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