St Mark's Campanile
Nearly thousand-year-old bell tower, rebuilt brick for brick after collapsing in nineteen oh two, with sweeping lagoon views.
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This guide to St Mark's Campanile in Venice recounts the morning of July 14, 1902, when a growing crack finally let this nearly thousand-year-old tower collapse into rubble in the square below. It follows the city council's vote to rebuild it exactly as it was, brick for brick, and the decade of work that followed. Listen for the bells above you — one once called Venice's workers to labor, another summoned the government, and a third rang only for executions.
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