January 2007

January 2007
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January 2007: Ponte Sant' Angelo Rome, Italy

The arch bridge Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome crosses the Tiber River from the Campus Martius to the mausoleum of Hadrian, now known as Castel Sant'Angelo. Hadrian had the first bridge on the site, the Pons Aelius, constructed between 134 adn 139 A.D.; it collapsed in 1450, and was temporarily repaired. In 1669 Pope Clement IX had sculptor Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini oversee the repair of the bridge and design of the angels that now grace the bridge, which angels were sculpted by Bernini's students. A close-up of one of those angels, with the moon in the background, is below. The view from above was taken from the Castel Sant'Angelo.