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Campanile

Address: Piazza San Marco, Venice, 30124
Phone: 041/5224064

Category: Architectural Sites, Viewpoints
Location: Piazza San Marco

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Fodor's Review:

Venice's famous brick bell tower (325 feet tall, plus the angel) had been standing nearly 1,000 years when in 1902, practically without warning, it collapsed, taking with it Jacopo Sansovino's 16th-century marble loggia at the base. The crushed loggia was promptly restored, and the new tower, rebuilt to the old plan, reopened in 1912. In the 15th century, clerics found guilty of immoral behavior were suspended in wooden cages from the tower. Some were forced to subsist on bread and water for as long as a year, and others were left to starve. The stunning view from the tower on a clear day includes the Lido, the lagoon, and the mainland as far as the Alps, but, strangely enough, none of the myriad canals that snake through the city.

Cost: EUR 8
Open: Apr.-June, Oct., and Nov., daily 9-7; July-Sept., daily 9-9; Dec.-Mar., daily 9-3:45. Last entrance 1 hr before closing
Vaporetto: Vallaresso/San Zaccaria

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