Drive Around Italy Carlo Ciardi. Limousine Service Rome - Shore Excursion - Cruise - Tour Italy

Just 30 minutes drive from Rome you arrive at Ostia.
Your driver will take you to the entrance of the ruins, after a short explanation, he will help you to buy your ticket.

After the visit which usually takes 2 hours your driver will take you to the beach where you can enjoy a fantastic fish lunch (not incld.) in a typical restaurant on the water.

After lunch, time for shopping and drinks at outdoor cafes and then drive back to your Hotel in Rome. 

In the Roman Republican times Ostia was Rome's main commercial port and a military base to defend the coastline and the Tiber entrance to Rome.
The port continued to flourish under the Empire, despite of the development, of Portus, a new port slightly to the northwest, in the 2nd century AD. Ostia's decline began in the 4th century, when a reduction in trade was combined with the gradual silting up of the harbour.

Then malaria became endemic in the area and the city, whose population may have been nearly 100,000 at its peak, was totally abandoned. Buried for centuries by sand, the city is remarkably well preserved.
The site is less spectacular than Pompeii or Herculaneum because Ostia died a gradual death, but it gives a more complete picture of life under the Roman Empire.
People of all social classes and from all over the Mediterranean lived and worked here.