Ostia Antica - Port of Ancient Rome

where ships from all over the Roman Empire delivered goods and the rich would spend their vacations.  A site some consider Rome’s Pompeii, this tour offers you a chance to wander the abandoned streets with fewer limitations than most of the archaeological sites in Italy. Originally a thriving port city, in the later Republic it became a holiday town full of hotels, brothels, bars and hundreds of villas all around.

Nowadays, wandering through its ancient streets people can get a real feel of the life of luxury and opulence that these Romans would have lived in. From the entrance we first pass a Necropolis (graveyard) as we make our way into the town.  Next we make our way to the theater and on to see more ordinary ancient life, as you wind your way through shops, luxury villas and even some bathrooms you’ll start to form an idea of how the ancient Romans really went about their day to day lives. Walking through its empty streets, one gets a feeling that the ancient world is not really lost to us at all, merely temporarily forgotten.