Castel Sant'Angelo
Burial place · Other
castle and museum in Rome, formerly the imperial mausoleum of the emperor Hadrian and subsequent Roman emperors
Location: 41.9030, 12.4663 · Pleiades 334776904
What this place is
- Other — Castel Sant'Angelo — "castle and museum in Rome, formerly the imperial [mausoleum]". Hadrian's tomb and later a papal fortress; not a church, and filed as a `building` correctly for once.
Who is recorded here
- Hadrian burial · AD 138
- Antoninus Pius burial · AD 161
- Marcus Aurelius burial · AD 180
- Commodus burial · AD 192
- Septimius Severus burial · AD 211
In art
- Pilgrims meet the Pope — Vittore Carpaccio (1492)
- The Punishment of Callisto — Bartholomeus Breenbergh (1647)
- Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice — Nicolas Poussin (1650)
- Bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome — Joseph Vernet (1745)
- Fireworks over Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome — Jacob Philipp Hackert (1775)
About the place
Castel Sant'Angelo, also known as Mausoleum of Hadrian, is a towering rotunda in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy. It was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family.
From Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-08-14 · CC BY-SA 4.0