Campanile

DEFINITION

In Italian architecture, a bell-tower, usually near, but rarely attached to, a church. Sometimes they were connected by cloisters to a church. They were first a product of the Romanesque period in Italy. Campanili (the plural form) in northern Italy are often civic monuments rather than parts of church complexes, were symbols of power, and also served as watch-towers.(pr. CAM-pə-NEE-lə)