Castel Sant’Angelo

Where archangel’s blade glints above the ramparts

DSCF2006 Via Della Conciliazione, Municipio Roma I, Rome | XF16-55mm f8.9 1/97s ISO320

DSCF2015 Castle of the Holy Angel, Lungotevere Vaticano, Rome | XF16-55mm f8.9 1/120s ISO500

DSCF2050 Castle of the Holy Angel, Lungotevere Vaticano, Rome | XF16-55mm f8.3 1/170s ISO400

DSCF2098 Castle of the Holy Angel, Lungotevere Vaticano, Rome | XF16-55mm f6.3 1/760s ISO320

DSCF2101 Castle of the Holy Angel, Lungotevere Vaticano, Rome | XF16-55mm f7.4 1/630s ISO320

DSCF2105 Castle of the Holy Angel, Lungotevere Vaticano, Rome | XF16-55mm f7.4 1/190s ISO320

DSCF2108 Mausoleum of Hadrian, Lungotevere Castello, Rome | XF16-55mm f7.4 1/460s ISO320

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In 1453 Niccolò V had the third statue, in marble with bronze wings, placed on the top of the building. It was destroyed in 1497 by a lightning that blew up the Castle’s powder magazine.

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