Campanile di San Polo / St. Paul’ Bell Tower (Venice)
N 45° 26.217 E 012° 19.766
33T E 291125 N 5034961
Detached bell tower of the Church of St. Paul (Chiesa di San Polo), located next to the church in San Polo sestiere (district) in Venice, is a typical example of slender medieval Venetian belfry constructed from bricks...
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Location: Veneto, Italy
Date Posted: 10/09/2009
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The detached tower of the Campanile di San Polo, constructed from typical red bricks and marble (columns, window frames) in Venetian-Byzantine style, was built in 1392.
At belfey's feet you vcan find two stone statues of Romanesque lions. The first has a serpent in its paws, the second holds a human head. The latter is popularly thought to be a reference to the punishment of Doge Marin Faliero for his plotting against the Venetian Rebublic. Although it's also said to represent the head of the condotiere Count Carmagnola, beheaded by the Republic in 1402.
Chiesa di San Polo (Church of St. Paul) was founded in 837 by the doges Pietro Tradonico and Orso Partecipazio. Church was rebuilt several times in the 12th-15th centuries. Some restoration and additions from the first part of the 19th century have recently been partly reversed revealing, for example, the 15th century wooden ship's keel roof and restoring the rose window which dates from the same era.