Must-SeeVatican Museums and St. Peter's
About 13 miles away
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica. Book the museums ahead.
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Ostia Antica
Ancient Rome's port, a whole city of streets, apartment houses, taverns and a theater, as fine as Pompeii in places and far quieter.
- Open
- Tuesday to Sunday; closed Mondays
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- Half a day
- Address
- Viale dei Romagnoli 717, 00119 RomeDirections
- Getting There
- The train from Porta San Paolo station, next to Piramide (Metro line B), to Ostia Antica, about 30 minutes.
Why Go
When the coast moved and the river silted up, Ostia was abandoned, and its brick streets survived. You can walk into bakeries, baths, apartment blocks and a working theater.
The mosaic floors of the Square of the Guilds show the trades and ships of the merchants who worked there.
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