Advantages: Close to Rome cheap to get to and in. Disadvantages: Open to the Hot Sun, be prepared.
All Great Tourist Cities have a MUST VIEW site, that most visitors should visit, but most Tourists do not visit or do not even know of its exisitance. OSTIA ANTICA is one such site.
Ask people about POMPEI and 99 percent know about it, but did you know about OSTIA.
GETTING THERE:-
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Go to Rome for a few nights. Just Joking.
Regular trains run from ROMA - LIDO di OSTIA station which is next to PIRAMIDE Metro stop on LINE B on the Rome Metro.
Journey time approx 30 mins.
Cost about 1 Euro. (In fact our 75 min Rome Bus ticket covered us).
The rome METRO does have a reputation for pick-pockets. And while we would not use the Metro in central Rome because of this risk , we did not have or see any problem on this stretch which is all above surface.
The 30 min Trip is not very scenic as you are ...
Advantages: 24 kms from Fiumicino Airport. Disadvantages: Location.
Melia Roma Aurelia Antica Hotel Rome.
Via Aldobrandeschi,
223 Roma, Italy.
The Melia is a four star Luxury Hotel with conference centre.
We stayed three nights.
Cost £196.59 for a standard room. This was for three nights (£65.53 per night).
(Breakfast is not included in this price)
Check in time 1pm. Check out time 12 Noon.
Booking Time: July 2005.
Location: About 6km North East of the Vatican City.
Airport we flew into: Fiumicino. Aprrox 24 Kms from The Melia.
Our visit to the Hotel Melia was an exceptional experience, we thoroughly enjoyed
our stay and would definitely go back. This is all about how we got there and what
it was like during our visit.
How we got there.
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It was a little more difficult for us to travel ...
Ostia Antica is an ancient archeological site. One of the best preserved site in Rome. Ostia antica was the harbour city of ancient Rome.
I am telling about a site of nearly 2000 years ago: walking along its stretts, u can se the way of life of the ancient Romans. The site was built on the mouth of the Tiber river: today the whole site is very farer than in the past: the sand trasported by the waters in the centuries, created new lands. Today Ostia Antica is far about 3-4 chilometers from the sea. The name "Ostium" means infact "mouth of the river".
In the ancient times, Ostia was one of the most vivacious cities of the roman empire: it was built in the middle of important commercial paths. Its importance grow under Adriano when in Ostia were till 100.000 inhabitants.
The ruins are exceptionally conserved: the site, as i can know, is ...
