#mausoleum of hadrian

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View of Rome at Night by Henryk Cieszkowski

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Bridge and Castle of the Holy Angel 🏰😇🌉

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Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome.

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Manmade items? Well, I've climbed Daddy's mausoleum...

And the Acropolis

I've SEEN much older stuff, of course, but no touchie! XD

(Not counting naturally occurring things like people and rocks and plants)

Consider things like coins, books, or family heirlooms! Tell me about it in the tags!

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View of the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (now called Castel S. Angelo) from the rear, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views). ca. 1756. Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund,1955 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/360267

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The Mausoleum of Hadrian, also known as Castel Sant'Angelo

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Castell San’Angelo, Roma

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'The Corbridge Lion' Roman Sculpture, Corbridge Roman Town Museum, Corbridge, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

Originally installed as part of a mausoleum, the Corbridge sculpture, symbolising victory or strength, was reworked as a fountainhead with a round, tubular hole between the predator's teeth.

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Castel Sant'Angelo, in Rome, Italy. The castle started its life as the Mausoleum of Hadrian. The Romans realized it would make a good castle and defensive walls were built on top. The Popes soon took it over (being conveniently close to the Vatican) and turned it into a proper castle. It's one of my favorite castles, mostly because it's had such an interesting life.

Check out this castle in this post on Rome's museums:

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The Girandola at the Castel Sant'Angelo by Louis-Jean Desprez and Francesco Piranesi

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Ponte Sant'Angelo

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The eighth angel, officially entrusted to Giulio Cartari

In 1669, Pope Clement IX commissioned Bernini to replace the aging stucco angels on the bridge.

Ponte Sant'Angelo, originally the Aelian Bridge or Pons Aelius, is a Roman bridge in Rome, Italy, completed in 134 AD by Roman Emperor Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus), to span the Tiber from the city centre to his newly constructed mausoleum, now the towering Castel Sant'Angelo. The bridge is faced with travertine marble and spans the Tiber with five arches, three of which are Roman; it was approached by means of a ramp from the river. The bridge is now solely pedestrian and provides a scenic view of Castel Sant'Angelo

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Castel Sant'Angelo

Mausoleum in Rome, Italy

Castel Sant'Angelo and Ponte Sant'Angelo, from across the Tiber river.

Castel Sant'Angelo from the bridge. The top statue is of Michael the Archangel, the angel from whom the building derives its name.

The Mausoleum of Hadrian, also known as Castel Sant'Angelo, is a towering rotunda in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy. It was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family. The popes later used the building as a fortress and castle, and is now a museum.

Address: Lungotevere Castello, 50, 00193 Roma RM, Italy

Hours: Closed ⋅ Opens 9 AM

Phone: +39 06 681 9111

Castel Sant'Angelo - Wikipedia

Rome, 🇮🇹 Italy

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Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome.

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138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. 1336 – Four thousand defenders of Pilenai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights. 1705 – George Frideric Handel's opera Nero premiered in Hamburg. 1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for his revolver firearm. 1843 – Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet affair. 1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress. 1875 – Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency. 1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. 1916 – World War I: In the Ble of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.[9] 1918 – World War I: German forces capture Tallinn to virtually complete the occupation of Estonia. 1921 – Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. 1932 – Adolf Hitler, having been stateless for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a Brunswick state official by Dietrich Klagges, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for Reichspräsident in the 1932 election. 1933 – Launch of the USS Ranger at Newport News, Virginia. It is the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned by the US Navy. 1939 – As part of British air raid precautions, the first of 2.5 million Anderson shelters is constructed in a garden in Islington, north London. 1941 – The outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a general strike in German-occupied Amsterdam to protest against Nazi persecution of Dutch Jews. 1947 – The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932. 1947 – Soviet NKVD forces in Hungary abduct Béla Kovács—secretary-general of the majority Independent Smallholders' Party—and deport him to the USSR in defiance of Parliament. His arrest is an important turning point in the Communist takeover of Hungary. 1948 – In a coup d'état led by Klement Gottwald, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Prague to end the Third Czechoslovak Republic. 1951 – The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón. 1956 – In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin. 1980 – The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse. 1986 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first female president. 1991 – Disbandment of the Warsaw Pact at a meeting of its members in Budapest. 1994 – American-Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein commits a mass shooting at the Cave of the Patriarchs mausoleum, leaving 29 dead and over 100 injured before he was disarmed and beaten to death by survivors. 1999 – Alitalia Flight 1553 crashes at Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport in Genoa, Italy, killing four. 2009 – Soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including 57 army officials. 2009 – Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashed during landing at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, primarily due to a faulty radio altimeter, resulting in the death of nine passengers and crew including all three pilots. 2015 – At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan.