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Discover the best top things to do in Ostia Antica, Italy including Ostia Tours - Ostia Antica Tours, Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica, ADV PRK Adventure Park, Castello di Giulio II, Cattedrale Di S. Aurea.
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1. Ostia Tours - Ostia Antica Tours
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5.0 based on 103 reviews
Ostia Tours provides guided tours of Ostia Antica, the Ancient seaport of Rome. All of our tours are skip-the-line and are led by professional licensed guides.
2. Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica
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4.5 based on 3,410 reviews
Present day site of sprawling ruins of a densely populated Roman city at the mouth of the river Tiber.
Reviewed By patrickn775 - London, United Kingdom
After days of rain the weather broke and we headed for Ostia. It is a short journey from central Rome by Metro, with one change to an overground line. The site is a five minute walk from the station. This ancient town was once the port hub for goods from across the Roman Empire and must have been a busy commercial town. This is in evidence in the many Horea, or warehouse complexes dotted around. The site is vast with many buildings easily recognisable from antiquity. Highlights for me included a smart Tabernae that could almost still be serving wine and snacks today. Shopping arcades, designated emporia selling fish (with marble tanks), a complete theatre behind which is a big piazza with mosaics identifying each guild where merchants did business and deals were made. It is different from Pompeii where the dramatic death and destruction visited on a whole city over two days makes for a sometimes chilling but utterly compelling visit. The crowds are can be daunting there but you can still find quiet spots off the main tracks. However, I would say nearby Herculaneum is an even more unmissable visit with stunning, vivid colour and survival of wooden furniture and roofs plus even paper scrolls from the boiling mud and the dead still situ. Ostia feels far more alive than both, however, even though the former were frozen in time—Vesuvius’ devastation took a heavy toll. At Ostia Antica the crowds when we went were totally absent. Much of the site we had entirely to ourselves. You will need a map and the talk through device if you are to make your visit work. The site is cheap to visit and deserves more support than it gets. Let your imagination take over and enjoy this big, rare ancient marvel for its superb preservation, diversity of architecture and critical role in feeding, clothing and building of Ancient Rome.
3. ADV PRK Adventure Park
4. Castello di Giulio II
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4.5 based on 123 reviews
Reviewed By jeannenoelw
They do free guided tours of the castle at scheduled times. Reservations are made at castle and walks in can join if space available. It is a beautiful fortress in this ancient walled city. Very quiet gem to visit!
5. Cattedrale Di S. Aurea
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4.5 based on 83 reviews
Reviewed By topcandidate - Rome, Italy
The church in.this plaza still holds one Saint but once held Saint Monica - I knew exactly where she once was on entering this church - a side room mid-way up on the right - you could fell the present of a major saint of Christ. Saint Monica is now in a church in the plaza of Navona you might of visited in a walking tour - in rome. Check your Rome tourist map its on a line with the Pantheon and Fontana Di Trevi. Saint Monica California was named for this Major Christian Saint - some of whom you just know - are still active.
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