Giotto’s Campanile is a free-standing
campanile that is part of the complex of buildings that make up
Florence Cathedral on the
Piazza del Duomo in
Florence, Italy.
Standing adjacent the
Basilica of
Santa Maria del Fiore and the
Baptistry of St. John, the tower is one of the showpieces of the Florentine
Gothic architecture with its design by
Giotto, its rich sculptural decorations and the
polychrome marble encrustations.
This slender structure stands on a square plan with a side of 14.45 meters (47.41 ft). It attains a height of 84.7 meters (277.9 ft) sustained by four polygonal
buttresses at the corners. These four vertical lines are crossed by four horizontal lines, dividing the tower in five levels.
