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At the sides of the portal there are friezes with decorations showing animals and imaginary beasts. These, alongside a singular representation of ships (the Pisan port?), accompany the epigraph which commemorates the foundation of the building. The cylindrical belfry which concludes the building, of a smaller diameter than the floors below, bears an external decoration composed of closed and pierced lunettes, which rest alternately on pedestals and columns, whereby under every pedestal (bearing two closed lunnettes) there is a door, while the single pierced lunnettes supported on columns are lengthened to form windows. The belfry is reached via a narrow spiral stair, and in turn allows access to the summit of the tower by way of a stair cut into the wall.
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Western Europe
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