Overall rating Castel Sant´Angelo

27
Best (Palace/ Castle) Europe
  Accessibility
95 out of 100   "Must See"-Factor
95 out of 100   Budget Friendliness
68 out of 100   Architecture
96 out of 100   Condition
92 out of 100   Historical Significance
98 out of 100

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[07.10.2007 17:05]

Date published
Sep 2006

100 out of 100
Papal Fortress
The author describes the Castel Sant'Angelo as being an "imposing round hunk". Originally built to be Hadrians mausoleum, it was "converted into a fortress" in the year 6 AD for the popes. After "Pope Gregory the Great" claimed to have seen "a phantom angel hovering over the building" he "re-christened the fortress". It was linked "by a wall [more...]
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