Angelo Bridge is one of the oldest known and beautiful city of Rome. It was built by Emperor Hadrian between 134-139 across the river Tiber from the city of Rome to the mausoleum that was built across, and subsequently became part of the complex San't Castello Angelo.
past
pilgrims used this bridge to get to the Vatican, as was also known as Puente de San Pedro.
In the seventeenth century, Pope Clement IX instructs Bernini decorating the bridge in order to create an urban way of the cross.
is when Bernini designed 10 statues of angels holding various instruments of the passion, which only made two of them even came to be on the bridge, since the same Clement IX saved them for his own pleasure. Now we can see those two statues of Bernini's church Andrea delle Fratte San't.
is entirely pedestrian bridge, so we can entertain observing in detail the statues that decorate it, among which we can find some like the angel carrying the cross and the angel with a spear:
If you have the opportunity to get close to the bridge at night, I recommend it 100%, and that you will find far fewer tourists than during the day and the views of both the bridge and the castle and the Vatican City is really cool, and if you have no tripod not worry, because as you can see in the picture, there are plenty of makeshift stalls that to buy a tripod of any size to capture the best night shots of the Eternal City.
next to the bridge, you can visit the Castello de San't Angelo, in which stands the statue that crowns and which represents the archangel Michael sheathing a sword to announce the end of the plague epidemic that ravaged the city in AD 590.
Since 1277, a wall connecting the Vatican to the castle, which in 1527 served as a fortress and refuge for Pope Clement VII during the attack by the troops of Charles I of Spain.
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