It has actual solidity in every inch of it, apart from the fact that it also conveys the idea of solidity, as any building must which has taken the place of one so misguided as to fall down.

But its want of this intangible quality, together with its newness, have displaced it in my eyes as the king campanile of Venice.

In my eyes the campanile of S.
Giorgio Maggiore now reigns supreme, while I am very much attached also to those of the Frari and S.Francesco della Vigna.

But let S.Mark's campanile take heart: some day Anno Domini will claim these others too, and then the rivalry will pass.

But as it is, morning, noon, and evening the warm red bricks and rich green copper top of S.Giorgio Maggiore's bell-tower draw the gaze first, and hold it longest.