Campanile della Cattedrale di San Pietro
This bell tower is 70 meters high. They have started to build it in 1184 and finished it in 1426.
This bell tower is 70 meters high. They have started to build it in 1184 and finished it in 1426.
The bell tower of Giovanni da Brensa (1481/1495) is 62 meters high.
The bell tower of San Domenico was built in 1313 in Gothic style and it’s 51 meters high.
This bell tower has been completed in 1455 and is 52 meters high.
This bell tower, built in 1471, is placed on the left side of the church and is 55 meters high.
This bell tower has been completed in 1694. It is 52 meters high and the cusp was added 50 years later. In 1748 the architect Giacomo Lanfranchi rebuilt the spire in order to harmonize it with the rest of the building.
The bell tower of the church of San Girolamo della Certosa was built in 1611 by Tommaso Martelli.
The two towers the traditional symbol of Bologna, stand at the strategic point where the old Aemilian way entered the town. Today they stand right at the middle of the opening of Porta Ravegnana square, but this does not correspond to their original layout, which comprised wooden constructions all around their base and hanging passageways.
Built at the beginning of the 13th century, the Orologio Tower (Clock Tower) is located at the intersection of Piazza Maggiore and via IV Novembre. The clock was installed on its façade in the 15th century, after the height of the tower had been increased.
Rising 47 metres up into the sky and built in the 13th century, it seems to sit on the porticos of the Voltone del Palazzo del Podestà.
Built in the twelfth century by the guelph Prendiparte family, as the last bulwark against the attacks of enemies of the Prendiparti Tower also known as Coronata Tower. It reaches a height of 60 meters, making it the second highest after Asinelli Tower. Originally it seemed to have been higher and had been pollarded or suspended for some reason.
Galluzzi Tower was built in 1257, and was originally taller than its current 30 metres.
According to measurements taken in 1983, the tower is actually 54.80 metres high and not 60-61 metres as it was previously thought. It was taller when it was built.
The tower dates back to the 13th century and is 20 metres high. Since the end of the 14th century, it has been property of the Collegio di Spagna.
Just behind the Piazza della Meranzia. The family erected it in the XII century. Its 27 meters high were long oppressed by a modest building which hid the view and only in 1928, thanks to an accurate restoration of the adjacent houses, has rediscovered the ancient breath.
Which is 22 metres high. The tower is the only authentic building on the entire “faux-mediaeval” block, which was actually constructed in the 1930s. However, the tower’s origins date back to the 14th century; it now hosts a private residence.
After the collapse of the original structure in 1487, it was restructured into a tower-house. It bears witness to the feudal past of the city and the rivalry among the noble families of the period.
It was purchased in 1294 by theComune of Bologna to enlarge his residence, formed by palatium vetus - the complex before the Podesta, and palatium novum, the so-called Re Enzo.
Incorporated into the walls of Palazzo d’ Accursio complex dates back to 1359. Under Napoleon, was reduced almost by half, that could be 30 meters to the current 18.
In order to have the most striking view of the tower, we suggest taking via San Simone from via Oberdan and turning into vicolo Mandria on your right.