The main bell tower of the Cathedral of Murcia has four. Some churches have an exconjuratory in the bell tower, a space where ceremonies were conducted to ward off weather-related calamities, like storms and excessive rain. The Santo Tomás parish church in Haro, La Rioja has an exconjuratory for weather prayers in its bell tower The tallest free-standing bell tower in the world, 113.2 metres (371 ft) high, is the Mortegliano Bell Tower, in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, Italy. A bell tower may also in some traditions be called a belfry, though this term may also refer specifically to the substructure that houses the bells and the ringers rather than the complete tower. The term campanile ( / ˌ k æ m p ə ˈ n iː l i, - l eɪ/, also US: / ˌ k ɑː m-/, Italian: ), from the Italian campanile, which in turn derives from campana, meaning 'bell', is synonymous with bell tower though in English usage campanile tends to be used to refer to a free standing bell tower. Church bell towers often incorporate clocks, and secular towers usually do, as a public service.

Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell towers, often part of a municipal building, an educational establishment, or a tower built specifically to house a carillon. Bell tower of the former monastery in Dürnstein, Lower AustriaĪ bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none.

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