. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . e he was takenprisoner by Napoleon I. Here he died in 1823, and from hence in 1849Pius IX. made his escape to Gaeta. The Quirinal Palace is now the Royal Palace of the King of Italy. Thestate rooms can generally be seen. The Sala Regia, 150 feet in length,was built by Paul V. Returning to the Piazza del Popolo, and passing along tne Via di Ripetta,we skirt the river bank, and cross the Tiber by the bridge of St. Angelo. Thewater of the river is of a dirty yellow colour, but the st
. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . e he was takenprisoner by Napoleon I. Here he died in 1823, and from hence in 1849Pius IX. made his escape to Gaeta. The Quirinal Palace is now the Royal Palace of the King of Italy. Thestate rooms can generally be seen. The Sala Regia, 150 feet in length,was built by Paul V. Returning to the Piazza del Popolo, and passing along tne Via di Ripetta,we skirt the river bank, and cross the Tiber by the bridge of St. Angelo. Thewater of the river is of a dirty yellow colour, but the stream is rapid. Thecastle of St. Angelo, built by the Emperor Hadrian as an imperialmausoleum, was long ago turned into a fortress. The mausoleum wascircular in form, nearly 1,000 feet in circumference, and was placed ona square basement, each side of which measured 247 feet. The facewas covered with massive blocks of pure Parian marble : on the anglesof the basement were groups of men and horses in bronze ; and the summitwas crowned by a colossal marble statue of the founder, the head of which j 3^ — ^^i{^^. Rome. is in the Vatican Museum. The gates were of gilt bronze, with gildedpeacocks on the pilasters, two of which are also in the Vatican. Of thismagnificent decoration nothing remains. Of the ancient work, all tliat isvisible from the outside is a portion of the circular wall of the mole formedof great rocks of ])eperino, on which the outer casing of marble was rest, both above and below, is covered by the works of fortificationconstructed at various periods. The statues on the summit were flungdown upon the Goths when they besieged the castle in 537. Specialpermission, through an ambassador, is required to visit the castle. The bridge of St. Angelo is not only a remarkable example of thesolidity and perfection with which the edifices of ancient Rome were con-structed, but is also a proof of how many would have remained entire tothis day had they not been torn
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