As the students toured the glorious campus, with its lush lawns and impressive campanile, they knew they were the elite.

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From her vantage point view atop the church's 246-foot campanile, she witnessed the clouds of smoke and debris that filled Boylston Street after the blasts.

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The Campanile, like other posh co-ops in New York, will only take 100% cold hard cash for the privilege of owning shares in the building.

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If you did, it should be comforting to know that the campus is as beautiful as you remember, that the ringing of the Campanile sounds the same.

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Barnsley's centre does crown a hill, and the Art Deco town hall clock tower might be vaguely related to a campanile, but there the resemblance to anything Italian ends.

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Andrea Pisano, here with a marble relief panel from Florence's campanile depicting the Greek sculptor Phidias at work, also made the first set of bronze doors for Florence's Baptistery, between 1330 and 1336.

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The majestic Basilica di San Marco and its grand Campanile bell tower that rises above Piazza San Marco, call to mind the golden age of the Republic of Venice, which ended in the early 18th Century.

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The luxury hotel is also notable for its Cips restaurant, where Daniel Craig parked his yacht in Casino Royale, and has unparalleled views across the lagoon to the Campanile, the bell tower that dominates central Venice.

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Adelson, typically, was consumed with things large and small: the precise replication of the Campanile di San Marco and the Bridge of Sighs, the tassels on the curtains, the question of whether it was cheaper to rent or buy cranes (he bought), the color of the canals (he ordered them drained and their surface repainted, for a more perfect blue).

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