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# Castel Sant'Angelo, or the Sorrowful Castle: one of the oldest surviving buildings in Rome
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/zamok-sviatogo-angela-ili-pechalnyi-zamok-odno-iz-stareishikh-deistvuiushchikh-zdanii-rima/
- Published: 2024-06-11T12:33:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:33:32.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Heritage, Rome

Founded in 135 on the commission of Hadrian as a mausoleum for the emperors of Rome, it later became a fortress and a residence of the Roman popes, and in the 14th century a papal castle with a prison, where Giordano Bruno, among others, was held.

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