A trip to Rome would not be complete without a trip to the archaeological site of Ostia Antica. Upon arrival, visitors are immediately transported back to a typical ancient Roman city where the suggestive ruins of buildings from daily life have remained intact. Discover how and where people lived, shopped, worshipped, worked and entertained themselves. Ostia Antica is a truly unforgettable walk through history.

The Appian Way is one of the best preserved roman roads today.
The road was opened in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, who widened a pre-existing road that went as far as the hills of Albano. It soon became known as the regina viarum, - the queen of roads and in 191 BC, it was extended as far as Brindisi thus becoming the main gateway to Rome for commerce with the East.

Via Veneto, ampia e alberata arteria umbertina, è legata dalla metà del secolo scorso alla vivida cronaca di mondani trascorsi cinematografici e per questo incarna nella memoria collettiva il centro di quella che fu comunemente detta la “dolce vita”. La strada, che parte dalla Porta Pinciana ai confini con Villa Borghese, si cala con andamento snodato e serpentino fino alle viscere della Roma barocca, costituendo una elegante cerniera urbanistica tra l’antico e il moderno.

The Suburra, a term which has the same origin as the Latin suburbium was the most populated part of ancient Rome. It was the area below the city, outside it or rather outside of the original area allocated on the Eternal City’s Palatine Hill for nobility.

The Laterano complex has been one of the most significant and central locations in the history of Rome and the Church ever since 313 AD when Constantine assured religious freedom to the Christians of the Empire with the Edict of Milan.

In ancient times, the Caelian Hill was completely covIn ancient times, the Caelian Hill was completely covered in oak trees and was called mons Querquetulanus. Later, it derived its current name from Celius Vibenna, the Etruscan leader.

The area between Piazza Porta Capena and Piazzale Numa Pompilio represents the heart of a vast archaeological area that begins at the Roman Forum, passes Circus Maximus and the Baths of Caracalla and leads to Porta San Sebastiano and the Ancient Appian Way.

Among the seven hills of Rome, the Aventine could be considered the hill of poetry. Influenced by her peaceful beauty, great poets such as D’Annunzio and Carducci sang of her splendour in their verses. It was Mazzini, to whom a monument is dedicated in the piazza currently named after Ugo La Malfa, who while overlooking the city from that very place, lowered his eyes in an astonished gaze and stood without smiling in front of such magnificence.

The area of the Forum Boarium is of great interest due to its association with the city’s earliest beginnings, and even more important is the stretch of the Tiber now marked by the ruins of the 16th century Ponte Rotto.