With skip-the-line access, visit and explore one of the most powerful trade and commerce sites of the Roman Empire, Ostia Antica, Harbour of the Roman Empire! With your guide you will discover some of the site’s most impressive features, such as the Baths of Neptune which house an impressively preserved mosaic of Neptune, the god of the sea. Make your way through the Forum of Corporations, which during the time of Emperor Augustus was the centre of commerce and trade in Rome, and then to the impressive Ostia Antica Amphitheatre which once held up to 3,500 onlookers. Your guide will bring the past to life and help you understand how advanced the empire was in both commerce and engineering, and how it helped shape modern times. Peak into ancient shopfronts, and witness how the Roman’s managed to have complex systems bringing both hot and cold water into their buildings. All of this in a small group of only 6 people!
Ostia Antica Semi Private Tour - Rome's Ancient Harbour City will give you a deeper understanding into the network that helped foster the success of the Roman Empire. With such accelerating growth, this major trade site allowed Rome to feed it’s ever increasing population and supply goods to it’s citizens. Ostia Antica is an archaeological wonder that will leave you educated and impressed, and is surely a site that cannot be missed!
If you're coming from Rome, don't fret! Getting to Ostia Antica couldn't be easier! Just hop on the Roma - Ostia Lido line from the Ostiense train station (in the centre), ride the train for a short half hour, and get off at a quick 5 minute walk from the entrance to the site!