A 2.5 hours nice and chatty walking tour through Ostia Antica: the largest archaeological site in Europe and the Borghetto, a medieval citadel with its charming XV century Castle.
Ostia Antica was the ancient harbour of Rome: the walking tour takes you through the site where you will enjoy a 2.5-hour itinerary that shows the site's most relevant places and tells you a lot about the history of ancient Rome and its most important harbour.
Ostia Antica is the largest archeological site in Europe: it perfectly shows the way an ancient Roman city was built and how the inhabitants lived and worked; it has marvellous remnants of majestic temples, thermal baths, popular buildings and wealthy people’s villas along with a great necropolis and an ancient Roman theatre with four thousand seats still used today for live gigs during summer season.
Perfectly preserved mosaics and frescoes, statues and colonnades surrounded by beautiful Mediterranean pines complete the scenery.
The walking tour then takes you to and through the "Borghetto": a charming medieval village, dating back to the 9th century AD, with its perfectly preserved 15th century "Giulio II castle", built on a Michelangelo design, to help the papal state control the trading on the river Tevere and defend the farmers from the raids by the Saracens.
After a light stroll and lots of pictures, it's time for an Italian Gelato!
