Giotto’s bell tower is one of the four principal components of the Piazza del Duomo

84.70 meters in height and about 15 meters wide, it is the most eloquent testimony of fourteenth-century Florentine Gothic architecture which, though with a vertical momentum, does not abandon the principle of solidity.
It has angular reinforcements right up to the horizontally projecting coping.

Faced with white, red and green marbles like the Cathedral, the majestic square-base bell tower, considered the most beautiful in Italy – probably created more as a decorative rather than functional element – was begun by Giotto in 1334.