Castel Sant'Angelo
A great drum of stone on the Tiber, built by Hadrian as a tomb for himself and his family and later turned by the popes into a fortress. It was once the tallest building in Rome, and today it is a museum whose terrace, under the bronze Archangel Michael, looks straight down the river to St Peter's.
- Where
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 41.9030, 12.4663
Get the Castel Sant'Angelo stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Castel Sant'Angelo. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Lazio volume with your photos and a note.
Near Castel Sant'Angelo
Piazza Navona 0.7 km
A long oval square that keeps the exact shape of the Stadium of Domitian, built here in the 1st century AD for athletic games. Three fountains run down its length, with Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers at the centre, and the old running track is now lined with cafes and Baroque church fronts.
Ara Pacis 0.9 km
A marble altar to the Roman peace, commissioned by the Senate in 13 BC to honour Augustus on his return from Spain and Gaul. It lay buried under four metres of river silt for centuries and was reassembled in 1938 beside the Tiber, where it now stands inside its own museum.
Campo de' Fiori 0.9 km
A rectangular square south of Piazza Navona whose name, the field of flowers, dates from the Middle Ages when it was still a meadow. A produce and flower market fills it in the mornings, under the hooded statue of the philosopher Giordano Bruno.
Pantheon 1.0 km
A Roman temple first built under Augustus and rebuilt by Hadrian, now a church and still in use almost two thousand years on. Its unreinforced concrete dome, open to the sky through a single round oculus, lets in a moving disc of sunlight and the occasional shower of rain.
Piazza del Popolo 1.2 km
A large oval square just inside Rome's old northern gate, with an Egyptian obelisk at its centre. Its name is usually read as the People's Square, but it really comes from the poplars that gave the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in its northeast corner, its name.
Largo di Torre Argentina 1.2 km
A sunken square in the middle of modern traffic, holding four temples from the Roman Republic and part of the remains of Pompey's Theatre. It lies in the ancient Campus Martius, and a colony of cats now lives among the columns.
Spanish Steps 1.4 km
A broad, curving flight of steps climbing from Piazza di Spagna up to the twin towers of the Trinità dei Monti church. The square at the bottom takes its name from the Spanish embassy nearby, and the steps themselves have long been Rome's favourite place to sit and watch the street.
Trevi Fountain 1.4 km
The largest Baroque fountain in the world, 26 metres high and nearly 50 wide, designed by Nicola Salvi and finished in 1762. Ocean rides a shell chariot out of the palace wall above the basin, and tradition says a coin tossed over your shoulder means you will return to Rome.
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Questions
Where is Castel Sant'Angelo?
Castel Sant'Angelo is in Rome, Lazio, Italy. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Piazza Navona (0.7 km), Ara Pacis (0.9 km), Campo de' Fiori (0.9 km).
How do I get the Castel Sant'Angelo stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Castel Sant'Angelo and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Lazio volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Castel Sant'Angelo before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Lazio volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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