Your Ostia Tour begins with hotel pick-up, where your private driver and expert guide will meet you. After a comfortable drive of about 45 minutes, you will arrive at the archaeological site and begin your exploration.

The visit starts at the necropolis, the ancient cemetery located just outside the city walls, where tombs and funerary monuments introduce you to Roman beliefs about death and remembrance.

You will then enter the city through its main gate and walk along the Decumanus Maximus, Ostia’s principal street, still paved with original Roman stones worn smooth by centuries of footsteps.

Continuing through the city, you will visit the theater, built in the 1st century AD and still used for performances today. Nearby lies the Piazzale delle Corporazioni, once the commercial heart of Ostia, where merchant guilds from across the empire maintained offices decorated with detailed mosaics depicting their trades.

Your tour proceeds to the Forum, the civic center of the city, surrounded by important public buildings. Here you will see the remains of the Capitoline Temple, dedicated to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, as well as the Temple of Rome and Augustus, symbols of imperial power and loyalty.

Close to the Forum, you will explore the public baths, where impressive marble decorations and mosaics still survive. Visiting these spaces offers insight into Roman hygiene, social life, and daily routines—including a look at a Roman latrine, often one of the most surprising stops for visitors.

During your Ostia Tour, you will also enter ancient apartment buildings, private houses, taverns, temples, and a thermopolium, the Roman equivalent of a fast-food restaurant, where hot food and drinks were sold to the population.