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Bookmark or Share- How to visit Ostia Antica (and why you should add it to your Rome ...Discover how to visit Ostia Antica from Rome with this practical travel guide packed with information and tips on how to get to Ostia Antica, what to see and why you should add this wonderful day trip to any Rome itinerary.
- Ostia - Harbour City of Ancient RomeThis website is dedicated to Ostia, the harbour city of ancient Rome. Here you will find information for professional archaeologists and historians, for students of Roman archaeology and history, and for interested lay-people.
- Archaeological area of Ostia anticaArchaeological area of Ostia antica. As its own name suggests (from the Latin ostium = mouth of a river) Ostia was built at the mouth of the Tiber at the Tyrrhenian Sea. Before the crippling flood of 1557 the riverbed was significantly different from the current one, its waters ran along the northern part of the city and the coastline was ...
- Ostia (Rome) - WikipediaOstia was the port city of ancient Rome; it had a strategic function for trade, especially for the supply of grain, and as the main base of the Roman navy.
- Ostia | Italy, Map, History, & Facts | BritannicaOstia, seaport of ancient Rome, originally on the Mediterranean coast at the mouth of the Tiber River but now, because of the natural growth of the river delta, about 4 miles (6 km) upstream, southwest of the modern city of Rome, Italy.
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