Editing Ponte Sant'Angelo

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{{Landmark Infobox
|image = Ponte Sant'Angelo 2 v.png
|description = One of the most important bridges across the Tiber.
|location = [[Centro District]]<br>[[Rome]], [[Italy]]
|architect = Emperor [[Hadrian]]
|dateconstructed = 134
|functions = Bridge 
}}
'''Ponte Sant'Angelo''' (English: ''Bridge of the Holy Angel'') is the bridge in [[Rome]], Italy that connects the [[Castel Sant'Angelo]] to the [[Centro District|historical centre]] of city, extending over the [[Tiber]]. By extension, it is also part of the main route between Rome and [[Vaticano District|Vatican City]].

==History==
Castel Sant'Angelo originated as the mausoleum of the Roman emperor [[Hadrian]], and the Ponte Sant'Angelo was first constructed to link the city to this to this tomb that was situated just on the other side of the Tiber.<ref name="Database">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' – [[Database: Ponte Sant'Angelo]]</ref>

In 1450, its a mob of pilgrims rushing across the bridge on their way to [[St. Peter's Basilica]] caused the balustrades to buckle. A mass drowning ensued from the ensuing collapse of the bridge.<ref name="Database" />

Around 1506, it was outside the Castel Sant'Angelo that the [[Italian Brotherhood of Assassins|Italian]] [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Lo Sparviero]] secretly met with [[Sirus Favero]] for advice on hunting "Il Corvo", the enigmatic leader of the Templar counter-Assassin unit called the [[Crows]]. Unbeknownst to the Assassins, Sirus was Il Corvo himself and had been hiding his identity by cooperating with them; on this occasion, he was encouraging them to hunt [[Borgia messenger]]s for intel. Lo Sparviero intercepted one such messenger nearby who had been carrying a letter to the Crows, but he found Sirus suspicious while handing off the letter to him.<ref name="Under the Red Sun">''[[Assassin's Creed: Identity]]'' – [[Under the Red Sun]]</ref> <ref name="Machiavelli journal 8">''Assassin's Creed: Identity'' – [[Niccolò Machiavelli's journal]]: "[[Database: Journal - Under the Red Sun|Under the Red Sun]]"</ref> Acting on his intuition, the Assassin tailed Sirus over the bridge, eventually being lured into an ambush.<ref name="Under the Red Sun" />

==Trivia==
*The bridge was a restricted area in ''Brotherhood'', except in certain memories, such as "[[The Ezio Auditore Affair]]".
*The bridge was formerly known as '''Pons Aelius''' or '''Ponte Aelius'''.
*Historically, the statues on the bridge were not placed until 1527 by order of Pope [[Clement VII]].
*In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Identity]]'', due to the different game engine, the arrangement of scaffolds under the bridge are different from ''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood''.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
Ponte Sant'Angelo 1.png|The Ponte Sant'Angelo
ACB DB Ponte Sant'Angelo.png|Database image
Ponte Sant'Angelo 3.png|A crowd on the Ponte Sant'Angelo
Castel Sant Angelo 2.png|The Ponte Sant'Angelo and Castel Sant'Angelo
Under the Red Sea.png|Concept art of Ponte Sant'Angelo in ''Identity''
Saviors of Roma.png|Concept art of Ponte Sant'Angelo and Castel Sant'Angelo in ''Identity''
Andi-drude-robert-drude-assassins-creed-santangelo-dust.jpg|Concept art of Ponte Sant'Angelo and Castel Sant'Angelo in ''Identity''
</gallery>

==Appearances==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Identity]]''

==References==
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[[Category:Bridges]]
[[Category:Landmarks in Rome]]