id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2620 Castel Sant'Angelo - Wikipedia .html text/html 2909 402 73 The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as Castel Sant'Angelo (Italian pronunciation: [kaˈstɛl sanˈtandʒelo]; English: Castle of the Holy Angel), is a towering cylindrical building in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy. ...in order to build churches for the use of the Christians, not only were the most honoured temples of the idols [pagan Roman gods] destroyed, but in order to ennoble and decorate Saint Peter's with more ornaments than it then possessed, they took away the stone columns from the tomb of Hadrian, now the castle of Sant'Angelo, as well as many other things which we now see in ruins.[4] View from the top of the Castel Sant'Angelo towards the ancient city core of Rome. Decommissioned in 1901, the castle is now a museum: the Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo. View of the river Tiber looking south with the Castel Sant'Angelo and Saint Peter's Basilica beyond, Rudolf Wiegmann 1834 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Castel Sant'Angelo (Rome). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2620.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2620.txt