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of Augustus
Hadrian
thought he couldn't go wrong when he designed this new tomb
for t he
emperors in 138, three years before his own death.
He placed
it on the uninhabited bank of the pestilential Tiber,
where the imperial megalomania would cause no resentment,
and he built it solidly to defend his memory against Time
itself. Instead, his last resting place has seen more blood,
treachery, and turmoil than any in Rome; his ashes
were still warm in the urn when Aurelian made it
a bulwark in his walls, inaugurating its history as Rome's
chief citadel and dungeon.
Hadrian's
Mausoleum original design harked back to
Augustus' Mausoleum, though on a paranoiac scale, consisting
of a massive 89 m solid square base topped by a cylinder
64 m in diameter and 20 m high, made of travertine with
a white Parian marble veneer.
Like a giant
planter, cypresses grew out of its top, while al the very
summit of the tower stood a gilded quad Riga driven
by a colossal statue of Hadrian (now replaced
by the bronze angel).
The emperor
was a great art collector, and beautiful statues
adorned the sides; Henceforth it was known as Castel
Sant'Angelo,
Dark, too,
is the history of Castle Sant'Angelo's bridge
Ponte Sant'Angelo, Hadrian's Pons Aelius, built
in 134 to link his Mausoleum to the city (the
three central arches are Hadrian's, the other two were added
with the Tiber Embankments).
Address - Rome
Castel Sant'angelo Lungotevere Castello,
1
00183 Roma, Italia
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