Sather Tower
Sather Tower is a bell tower with clocks on its four faces on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. It is more commonly known as The Campanile for its resemblance to the Campanile di San Marco in Venice.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Opening hours: Monday—Friday 10:00 AM—3:45 PM and Saturday 10:00 AM—4:45 PM and Sunday 10:00 AM—1:30 PM and Sunday 3:00 PM—4:45 PM
- Type: Clock
- Description: architectural structure
- Also known as: “The Campanile”
- Address: CA
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bancroft Library and Doe Memorial Library.
Bancroft Library
Library
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bancroft Library is the main special collections library of the University of California, Berkeley. The original collection, acquired in 1905 from its founder Hubert Howe Bancroft, is the largest collection of materials on Californian history and Western North America in the world.
Doe Memorial Library
Library
Photo: Minesweeper, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Doe Memorial Library is the main library of the University of California, Berkeley Library System. The library is named after its benefactor, Charles Franklin Doe, who in 1904 bequeathed funds for its construction. Doe Memorial Library is situated 490 feet west of Sather Tower.
Haas School of Business
College
Photo: Minesweeper, Public domain.
The Haas School of Business is the business school of the University of California, Berkeley, a public research university in Berkeley, California. It was the first business school at a public university in the United States. Haas School of Business is situated 1,200 feet east of Sather Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Northside and Southside.
Northside
Neighborhood
Photo: BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Northside is a principally residential neighborhood in Berkeley, California, located north of the University of California, Berkeley campus, east of Oxford Street, and south of Cedar Street.
Southside
Neighborhood
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Southside, also known by the older names South of Campus or South Campus, is a neighborhood in Berkeley, California. Southside is located directly south of and adjacent to the University of California, Berkeley campus.
Downtown Berkeley
Neighborhood
Photo: Introvert, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Downtown Berkeley is the central business district of the city of Berkeley, California, United States, around the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Center Street, and extending north to Hearst Avenue, south to Dwight Way, west to Martin Luther King Jr.
Sather Tower
- Categories: tower, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Alameda, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.87206° or 37° 52′ 19″ northLongitude
-122.25783° or 122° 15′ 28″ westElevation
315 feet (96 metres)Inception
1914Height
307 feet (94 metres)Open location code
849VVPCR+RVOpenStreetMap ID
way 24024507OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=clockOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=towerOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q357019
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Sather Tower” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “萨瑟塔”
- Chinese: “薩瑟塔”
- Dutch: “Sather Tower”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برج ساثر”
- French: “Sather Tower”
- German: “Sather Tower”
- Italian: “Sather Tower”
- Spanish: “Sather Tower”
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