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Sant'Angelo is the 11th rione of Rome, Italy, located in Municipio I. Often written as rione XI - Sant'Angelo , it has a coat of arms with an angel on a red background, holding a palm branch in its left hand.
Decommissioned in 1901, the castle is now a museum: the Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo. It received 1,234,443 visitors in 2016. [11] There is an ongoing project to connect Castel sant'Angelo to the St. Peter's Basilica via a fully pedestrian path, by creating an underground tunnel under the Piazza Pia Place. [12]
Sant'Ambrogio della Massima (also Sant'Ambrogio alla Massima [1]) is an ancient Catholic church in rione Sant'Angelo, Rome, Italy.It is home to the General Curia of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation of the Order of Saint Benedict.
The façade is one of the most refined examples of the 18th-century style in Rome. The interior has a single nave with plaster decorations. It houses works of art formerly in the little church of San Michele Arcangelo ai Corridori di Borgo, lying along Borgo Sant'Angelo, demolished in 1939 in order to enlarge the Borgo S.Angelo and via della Traspontina.
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.
Hadrian's Mausoleum still makes up the core of Castel Sant'Angelo.The tuff blocks visible in the lower part of the cylinder are Roman.. During the Roman age, the Borgo district was part of the 14th Regio (Regio XIV Transtiberim) and was named Ager Vaticanus, [1] after the auguries (vaticinii) performed there by the Etruscan Augurs.
Elisa di Rivombrosa is an Italian television series (partly inspired by the 1740 novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded) about a love story in 18th century Italy between Fabrizio Ristori, a young Italian Count, and his mother's maid, Elisa. It was broadcast on Mediaset for two seasons from 2003 to 2005.
Sant'Angelo Romano is a town and comune in Latium, Italy, administratively part of the Metropolitan City of Rome. It is located north of Guidonia Montecelio , where the closest Trenitalia train station (about 40 minutes by train from Rome ) is located.