Le Mausolée d'Hadrien, généralement connu sous le nom de Castel Sant'Angelo est un imposant bâtiment cylindrique dans le Parco Adriano, Rome, Italie. Il a été initialement commandé par l'empereur romain Hadrien comme un mausolée pour lui et sa famille. Une grande partie de la tombe content
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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. 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 Augustus Honorius. The urns and ashes were scattered by Visigoth looters during Alaric's sacking of Rome in 410, and the original decorative bronze and stone statuary were thrown down upon the attacking Goths when they besieged Rome in 537. The popes converted the structure into a castle, beginning in the 14th century. The Papal state also used Sant'Angelo as a prison; Giordano Bruno, was imprisoned there for six years. Executions were performed in the small inner courtyard. Decommissioned in 1901, the castle is now a museum, the Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo. The Bridge of Hadrian, is a Roman bridge completed in 134 AD by Roman Emperor Hadrian, to span the Tiber, from the city center to his newly constructed mausoleum, now the towering Castel Sant'Angelo. The bridge is faced with travertine marble and spans the Tiber with three arches; it was approached by means of ramp from the river. The bridge is now solely pedestrian, and provides a photogenic vista of the Castel Sant'Angelo. Detroit Publishing Company circa 1890-1900.
