View of Rome from Castel Sant Angelo - Rome, Italy
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Becktracker
N 41° 54.166 E 012° 27.980
33T E 289840 N 4642085
The view from Castel Sant Angelo over Rome is fantastic and it has been made into a puzzle.
Waymark Code: WM15CNK
Location: Lazio, Italy
Date Posted: 12/08/2021
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We went to Rome to celebrate my parents 35th wedding anniversary. After the visit to Vatican City, we used the Roma pass to get access to Castel Sant Angelo. This was a good choice. The place has lots of interesting sites to see and at the top is a beatiful view of Rome. The picture from the puzzle has been cropped, because my picture offers an even wider view!
about Cast Sant Angelo (
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"The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as Castel Sant'Angelo, is a towering cylindrical building in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy. It was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family. The building was later used by the popes as a fortress and castle, and is now a museum. The structure was once the tallest building in Rome.
The tomb of the Roman emperor Hadrian, also called Hadrian's mole,[1] was erected on the right bank of the Tiber, between AD 134 and 139.[2] Originally the mausoleum was a decorated cylinder, with a garden top and golden quadriga. Hadrian's ashes were placed here a year after his death in Baiae in 138, together with those of his wife Sabina, and his first adopted son, Lucius Aelius, who died in 138. Following this, the remains of succeeding emperors were also placed here, the last recorded deposition being Caracalla in 217. The urns containing these ashes were probably placed in what is now known as the Treasury Room, deep within the building. Hadrian also built the Pons Aelius facing straight onto the mausoleum – it still provides a scenic approach from the center of Rome and the left bank of the Tiber, and is renowned for the Baroque additions of statues of angels holding aloft instruments of the Passion of Christ.
Much of the tomb contents and decorations have been lost since the building's conversion to a military fortress in 401 and its subsequent inclusion in the Aurelian Walls by Flavius Honorius Augustus. The popes converted the structure into a castle, beginning in the 14th century."