CAORLE HISTORY

The Cathedral and the Campanile

It leaves the door to the museum on the ground in order to admire the bell tower, the typical symbol of Caorle.
It is forty-eight meters high, almost equal to that of Pomposa, with a diameter of 6.50 meters, located towards the southern side of the facade of the Duomo, which is about 5.40 meters.
It 's constructed in brick, except the concrete base of a large stone structure in an irregular manner, as the circumference is missing a stretch of about 5 meters.
The novelty is the cylindrical shape up to the plane of the cusp. In this perspective it is the most eastern part of the time round towers of Ravenna remote source and distributed along the Adriatic coast. In fact, just prior to ours, is to pass (Mestre) coastal lagoon of Venice, not to mention some Venetians are documented in the past but disappeared (S. Second, the Angelo Raffaele, S. Paterna in part).
Whereas on the lower side towards the sea wall is a collection of pebbles and irregular blocks of stone, white, and due to a possible defense against exceptional tides, it was argued that I'attuale tower was built on an earlier building in ruins, almost that previously existed for a tower early scolta sea.
At present we have no evidence to prove or disprove such a supposition. The cylindrical tower is divided into four zones or rock.
The lower on the northern side, has an Ark blind, perhaps motivated by the need for static support the structure above. Each item is rocky at the top a crown stamps that you change the end of the third in a series of saw-tooth or teeth of the wolf, and the fourth in a plea drops.
The specific feature of the tower is the harmonious distribution of openings in each rock, revealing the aesthetic sensibility and local lagoon. They start dall'inferiore a single, then to develop in the other rock, with a criterion corresponding to a plan from anonymity architect. In fact, from bottom to top in the second rock alternating single and mullioned windows, corresponding to bottom, the fourth and third in successive windows and onofore yet.
The reason for functional and decorative resolves, ultimately, in the loggia, in the middle of the cane with I'elegantissima series of twenty-four single, alternate or arch blind, for static or arcade open for coloristic reasons. In practice, the dual mode of structure creates a light effect in the contrast between empty and full, in harmony with the analogous solution of the columns and pillars in the nave of the cathedral. Every single is a typical capital crutch, supported by marble column carst, slightly tapered and polygonal section. That is why it is present in the windows.
The single-twenty-four have a symbolic meaning and fulfillment in twenty-four hours of giorno.Nelle mullioned windows of the belfry or fourth rock feel the presence in the arch ring, which is why - you know - the nearby cathedral. Above the cane spread the cusp of a lesser diameter.
We do not know if it is coeval with it, or back at least two centuries. It rests on the drum and move up towards I'alto tapered, worked in embrici of brick, arranged in fine overhang almost imperceptible, that it seems a fabric mat east.
The first two bands from the bottom are marked by an indented frame and a woven knots. The spire at the top end in cosmic cross, that four-arm, according to a type common in particular in Venice in the basilica of St. Marco.Il bell and striking also because of its bells. During the seventeenth century were four for a harmonious concert. Also used to give signals to the fishermen at sea storms or foggy days.
Now I am three, sounds soft, veiled touches of nostalgia.