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Hadrian's Mausoleum

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Hadrian's Mausoleum is today known as the Castel Sant'Angelo, having in the renaissance being converted into a papal stronghold.
It's circular plan owed much to the Mausoleum of Augustus. It was begun about AD 130, but was not yet completed by the time of Hadrian's death, the emperor being buried in another place until the mausoleum was ready.