The pagan emperors ' tombs of the Mausoleum of Augustus and Castel Sant ' Angelo were rifled and the ashes scattered.

In the meantime, Lambert and his mother Ageltrude travelled to Rome to receive papal confirmation of his imperial succession, but Formosus, still desiring to crown Arnulf, was imprisoned in Castel Sant ' Angelo.

While he was convalescing in Castel Sant ' Angelo, his troops controlled the conclave.

Cesare then broke out of the Castel Sant ' Angelo and escaped, but the accession of the Borgias ' deadly enemy, Giuliano della Rovere, as Pope Julius II caused his final ruin.

Castel Sant ' Angelo, the ancient Hadrian Mausoleum.

He was buried in a mausoleum on the western bank of the Tiber, in Rome, a building later transformed into a papal fortress, Castel Sant ' Angelo.

147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant ' Angelo.

She remained as Pope Gregory's chief intermediary for communication with northern Europe even as he lost control of Rome and was holed up in the Castel Sant ' Angelo.

Otto I died soon after Benedict's election in 973, and in 974 Benedict was imprisoned in the Castel Sant ' Angelo, at that time a stronghold of the Crescentii.

They had him imprisoned in Castel Sant ’ Angelo for nearly two months.

When Sicco arrived at Castel Sant ’ Angelo, Crescentius had Pope Benedict VI strangled.

As riots and chaos ensued, Boniface VII took refuge in Castel Sant ’ Angelo where he robbed the treasury of the Vatican Basilica and fled to Byzantine territory in southern Italy.

With the help of Crescentius ’ sons, John and Crescentius II, along with his Greek followers, Boniface had Pope John XIV imprisoned in Castel Sant ’ Angelo.

After a reign spanning eleven years, in which he overthrew two popes, allowing both to die in Castel Sant ’ Angelo, Boniface VII was finally dead.

During his reign, Boniface IX finally extinguished the troublesome independence of the commune of Rome and established temporal control, though it required fortifying not only the Castel Sant ' Angelo, but the very bridges, and for long seasons he was forced to live in more peaceful surroundings at Assisi or Perugia.

In 1696 Corsini was appointed treasurer-general and governor of the Castel Sant ' Angelo.

John XVI fled, and Crescentius II shut himself up in the Castel Sant ' Angelo.

The Castel Sant ' Angelo was besieged, and when it was taken in 998, Crescentius II was hanged upon its walls.

In Rome, the Castel Sant ' Angelo was besieged and taken, and Urban was forced to flee.

He fortified Castelfranco Emilia on the Mantuan frontier and commissioned Vincenzo Maculani to fortify the Castel Sant ' Angelo in Rome.

In 1084, when Rome was in Henry's hands and the pope besieged in Castel Sant ' Angelo, Desiderius announced the approach of Guiscard's army to both emperor and pope.

The Sistine Chapel was sponsored by Sixtus IV, as was the Ponte Sisto, the Sistine Bridge – the first new bridge across the Tiber since antiquity – and the building of Via Sistina ( later named Borgo Sant ' Angelo ), a road leading from Castel Sant ' Angelo to Saint Peter.

Castel Sant ' Angelo from across the Tiber

The Tiber in winter with St Peter's and the Castel Sant ' Angelo

Gregory VII was meanwhile still resisting a few hundred yards away from the basilica in the Castel San Angelo, then known as the house of Cencius.

Frederick's Castel del Monte ( Apulia ) | Castel del Monte, in Andria, Italy | Andria, Apulia, Italy.

File: Arte longobarda, da sutri, bicchiere a forma di corno, fine VI-inizio VII sec. JPG | A glass Drinking horn from Castel Trosino

Castel del Monte ( Apulia ) | Castel del Monte, built by the Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II between 1240 and 1250 in Andria, Italy | Andria

( Top: south, bottom: north ): " Cales Market " within citadel, shown at bottom, top " Guînes | Gyenes Castel ", bottom left " Gravelines | Graveling ", bottom right " Sangatte | Sand Gat "

Image: Bridge of Angels. jpg | Ponte Sant ' Angelo which leads to the Castel Sant ' Angelo.

Image: Mastro Titta. jpg | Giovanni Battista Bugatti, papal executioner between 1796 and 1865 offering snuff to a condemned prisoner in front of Castel Sant ' Angelo

Hôtel Castel Marie-Louise La Baule. JPG | Hôtel Castel Marie-Louise

Image: Castel Goffredo Piazza Mazzini. JPG | Mazzini square

Image: Castel Goffredo S. Erasmo. JPG | St.

Image: Castel Goffredo panorama. JPG | Entry

Image: Castel Goffredo villa Beffa. jpg | Villa building

Image: Castel Goffredo-Chiesa dei Disciplini-Facciata. jpg | Disciplini church

Image: Castel Goffredo-Chiesa Santa Maria del Consorzio-Campanile. jpg | St.

Act I was telecast live from Rome's basilica of Sant ' Andrea della Valle on Saturday, 11 July, at noon ( Central European Daylight Savings Time ); act II was telecast later that evening from the Palazzo Farnese at 9: 40 p. m .; act III was telecast live on Sunday, 12 July, at 7: 00 am from the Castel Sant ' Angelo, also known as Hadrian's Tomb.

* Construction begins on the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome, today known as Castel Sant ' Angelo.

The Barberini Faun ( located in the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany ) is a Hellenistic marble statue from about 200 BCE that was found in the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian ( the Castel Sant ' Angelo ) and installed at Palazzo Barberini by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini ( later Pope Urban VIII ).

The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as the Castel Sant ' Angelo ( English: Castle of the Holy Angel ), is a towering cylindrical building in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy.

The Castel Sant ' Angelo by the Vatican, originally the mausoleum of Hadrian, is the best preserved, as it was converted to a fortress.

The statue was found in the 1620s in the moat below the Castel Sant ' Angelo, Rome, which in Antiquity had been Hadrian ’ s Mausoleum.

In the Middle Ages the artificial tumulus was fortified as a castle — as was the mausoleum of Hadrian, which was turned into the Castel Sant ' Angelo — and occupied by the Colonna family.

During the early Middle Ages the bridge of Nero fell into ruins, while the Mausoleum of Hadrian was converted into a stronghold ( Castel Sant ' Angelo ), the possession of which ensured control of the city.