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Niziato from the emperor Adriano in 135 as its funereal mausoleo, inspiring itself to the now entire mausoleo of Augusto, was finished from Pious Antonino in 139. Venne built facing the Field Marzio to which was united from a bridge specially built, the Bridge Helium. The mausoleo was composed from a basic cubica, put on in marble lunense, having a decorative frieze to witness of oxen (Bucrani) and angular lesene. In the frieze overlooking the river they the names of the buried emperors to the inside read themselves. Always on this side is presented the arc of entrance titled to Adriano, the dromos (passage of access) entirely was put on of yellow ancient.

To the of above of the cube of base a drum it was settled realized in peperino and in work cementizia (opus caementicium) all put on of travertine and lesene grooved. To the of above of it it was yourselves an I inter of tree-lined land surrounded by marble statues (ce stay of it fragments). The I inter it was, finally, surmounted from a bronze quadriga guided from the emperor Adriano represented like the sun. Around the mausoleo ran a surrounding wall with bronze railing decorated from peacocks, two of you are are preserved to the Vatican .

To the inside wells of light they illuminated the staircase elicoidale in brick that connected the dromos to the cell mail to the center of the I inter. This ultima, balanced and entirely put on of marbles policromi and was surmounted from other two sepulchral cells.

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Castle and the Bridge Sant' Angelo

A lot soon the building changes destination of use and a fortilizio becomes. It comes integrated to the Wall aureliane in 403, and later on comes fortified, and stripped of decorations and coverings, from the popes to leave from the XIV century, which do to the same time a prison, (Welcome Cellini would have been shut away yourselves in the XVI century), and a shelter. In this manner, Mild VII resists to the siege of the Lanzichenecchi of Carlo V during the terrible bag of Rome in 1527.

The castle took its name present in 590, during a large epidemic of plague that hit Rome . The pope of the period, Gregorio THE, would have seen the archangel Michele, on the summit of the castle, that replaced its sword in the sheath meaning so the end of the epidemic. To commemorate the event, the statue of an angelo crown the building (first a statue in marble of Raffaello from Montelupo risalente to the XVI century, and then from 1753, a bronze of Pierre van Verschaffelt).