We checked out of our hotel and wended our way to Rome's airport, where we checked the car and caught the shuttle to our last hotel, after schlepping our bags forever. Very bad planning. We grabbed some pizza for lunch and then headed over to Ostia Antica, an excavated Roman town that I found fascinating. It had been the main town of commerce in southern Italy during the height of the Roman empire. Founded in the IVth century B.C., it was located near the mouth of the Tiber whose silt eventually buried the town, which had been abandoned in the 9th and 10th centuries AD. The excavations started in the 19th century, but were completed in the 20th.
In Ostia Antica, you can walk the 2km road where its inhabitants walked; you can marvel at the mosaics, the baths, the theater, and the temples. You can really get a feel for what it was like to live there, although the roofs are no longer present, having been burned and/or buried. I highly recommend a visit to this ruins; try to stay for the entire day.
Before the battery of my camera died, I got a couple of photos:
And that's our Foodie Trip. I hope you can join us next time, in October 2012. Write joan@tuscanyartsvacation.com for details.
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