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Via della Conciliazione (Road of the Conciliation [1]) is a street in the Rione of Borgo within Rome, Italy.Roughly 500 metres (1,600 ft) in length, [2] it connects Saint Peter's Square to the Castel Sant'Angelo on the western bank of the Tiber River.
Via della Conciliazione (Conciliation Street [1]) is a major street in the Rione of Borgo, leading to St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican City.Around 500 m in length, [2] it connects Saint Peter's Square to the Castel Sant'Angelo on the western bank of the Tiber River.
Castel Sant'Angelo from the Ponte Sant'Angelo. The top statue is of Michael the Archangel, the angel from whom the building derives its name. Ponte Sant'Angelos Angel figures. The tomb of the Roman emperor Hadrian, also called Hadrian's mole, [1] was erected on the right bank (or northern edge) of the Tiber, between 134 and 139 AD. [2]
Two were in the stretch of wall that led back from the Castel Sant'Angelo: a small postern gate behind the fortified Mausoleum, called the Posterula S. Angeli and later, from its proximity to the Castello, the Porta Castelli, and a larger one, the principal gate through which emperors passed, near the church of St. Peregrino, called the Porta ...
Ponte Sant'Angelo, originally the Aelian Bridge or Pons Aelius, is a Roman bridge in Rome, Italy, completed in 134 AD by Roman Emperor Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus), to span the Tiber from the city centre to his newly constructed mausoleum, now the towering Castel Sant'Angelo.
The Passetto di Borgo, or simply Passetto, is an elevated passage that links the Vatican City with the Castel Sant'Angelo. It is an approximately 800-metre-long (2,600 ft) corridor, located in the rione of Borgo. It was erected in 1277 by Pope Nicholas III, but parts of the wall were built by Totila during the Gothic War.
Clement VII barely escaped capture, running through the elevated Passetto (one block north of the spina) in his night dress and locking himself within Castel Sant'Angelo, while all the Swiss Guards, except those defending his escape, were killed near the obelisk. Despite this disaster, the quarter was able to recover quite quickly.
The chapel was established through donations from the confraternity of bombardiers of Castel Sant'Angelo. This chapel has an altarpiece of Santa Barbara (c. 1597) by Cavalier d'Arpino, with frescoed scenes (1610–20) from the life of the saint by Cesare Rossetti. Chapel of St Knud: Second on the right, was established as a Danish chapel in Rome.