There really isn't much to say about Ostia Antica. It's about 30 minutes outside of Rome and we were able to take the Metro there. We mostly wandered around for a bit with one of the members of the group who researched it and they were able to tell us some facts about the city. It's more or less a giant, slightly less preserved version of Pompeii. Instead of a volcano, the nearby Tiber river buried the city under mud and preserved it for many years. It used to be the Mediterranean port of Rome.
So we wandered around those ruins for quite a while and stopped to eat lunch at a cafe that was off to the side about halfway through. They also had souvenir shop attached which I browsed through for a while.
After Ostia, we had the option of either going off on our own or going to the Eur, which was a villa built by Mussolini in an attempt to recreate Rome's former glory. However, because I wasn't able to do my shopping in Florence, I needed the afternoon to get all of that done, so I opted out of the Eur. Me and several others wandered around Rome for most of the evening just looking for good shops.
Eventually I found just about everything I needed and spent the rest of the night just wandering around different piazza's and fountains. In the Piazza di Popolo we found another little festival with a bunch of booths set up selling various items. We also went by St. Angelo's Castle and bridge. Unfortunately, the bridge was closed off because a boat had gotten stuck underneath it earlier in the week due to the high level of the Tiber.
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| From Rome '08 |
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