The Hadrian Mausoleum, sometimes called Castel Sant Angelo, is a soaring rotunda located in Rome, Parco Adriano of Italy. Hadrian, the Roman Emperor, had originally ordered it to be built as a mausoleum for himself and his family. Later on, the popes utilized the structure as a castle and stronghold; it is currently a museum. It used to be the highest building in Rome. Between A.D. 134 and A.D. 139, the Roman emperor Hadrian had his tomb built on the right bank of the Tiber. The tomb was once a garden-topped, golden quadriga-adorned cylinder. A year after death of Hadrian in Baiae in 138, his ashes were interred here, along with those of his first adopted son, Lucius Aelius, who also passed away in 138, and his wife Sabina. After then, the bodies of other emperors were interred here as well; burial of Caracalla in 217 is the final known deposition. The Treasury Room, located deep beneath the structure, is most likely where the urns holding these remains were kept. Hadrian also constructed the Pons Aelius, which faces directly into the mausoleum and is famous for its Baroque additions of sculptures of angels carrying instruments in the air. It still offers a picturesque entrance from both the left bank of the Tiber and the heart of Rome. A large portion of the ornamentation of the tomb and contents have been lost because Flavius Honorius Augustus included the structure in the Aurelian Walls after it was transformed into a military fortification in 401 A.D. According to Procopius, the original beautiful bronze and stone statuary was thrown down upon the attacking Goths when they besieged Rome in 537 A.D. The urns and ashes were scattered by Visigoth robbers during invasion of Rome of Alaric in A.D. 410 [Information and Image Credit : Castel Sant Angelo, Wikipedia] [Wikipedia-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castel_Sant%27Angelo ] [Image : Mausoleum of Hadrian; Wikipedia-Image-Aithor : 0x010C ;] [Image Availed Under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported; (Please Relate to Individual Image URLs for More Usage Property)] [License-Link : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en ] [Wikipedia-Image-Source-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chateau-saint-ange-tibre.jpg ] #Castles#History
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