
The Rome metro stops about 6 times in Ostia, a district with almost 200,000 inhabitants. Ostia is part of the city of Rome, the normal fare for Roman public transport is Ostia. A simple ticket to Rome, with a change to the metro or bus in Rome, costs only 1.50 euros for up to 100 minutes. A combination of a beach holiday and a city break. Some tourists who want to visit Rome also stay overnight in Ostia and take the train to the sights to Rome. There are long beaches with parasols and sunbeds and hundreds of restaurants. Tickets without queuing (skip-the-line tickets) must be bought in advance on the internet and go past the queue!: This link offers such tickets Peter’s Basilica, the Colosseum and the Vatican Museum. Important for travellers to Rome: We have only seen queues of hundreds of metres or several hours in Europe in Rome. Today the water is much cleaner again and you can swim in the sea in Ostia without hesitation. The great river Tiber flows into the sea here, bringing a lot of sewage and waste from Rome. Ostia was extremely popular in the 1950s and 1960s. This website offers the 7-day-ticket for Rome. The cheap weekly ticket for Rome can now simply be bought online before the journey. For one thing, it is not easy to use Italian ticket machines, there are not ticket machines everywhere and often queues form. Many Romans and also other tourists come to the bathing resort Lido di Ostia.īuy weekly tickets for local transport in Rome before your trip: Many tourists have a problem to buy public transport tickets for Rome on arrival. There is a good train connection to the city centre, you can reach the sea in half an hour. Ostia is something like the bathtub of Rome. The present coast is crowded with thousands of people every day. Therefore, the excavation is something inland. In ancient times, 2000 years ago, the mouth of the Tiber and the coast were a few kilometres away from today’s site.

This article is about today’s Ostia by the sea.

About the ancient excavation Ostia we have written an extra article, which you can find on this link. The ancient city is today one of the largest excavations of Italy called Ostia Antica. In ancient times Ostia was a large port, the sea port of Rome. Lido di Ostia (Ostia) is the part of Rome by the sea, about 25 km away from the centre of Rome.
