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The Museo Archeologico Ostiense (or Archaeological Museum of Ostia) is an archaeological museum dedicated to the ancient Roman city of Ostia in Rome, Italy. The museum was built by Pope Pius IX, who in 1865 had to readapt a fifteenth-century building used as a store to create a city museum. Contained in the museum are numerous archaeological ...
Ostia may have been Rome's first colonia.According to legend, Ancus Marcius, the fourth king of Rome, [4] was the first to destroy Ficana, an ancient town that was only 17 km (11 mi) from Rome and had a small harbour on the Tiber, and then proceeded with establishing the new colony 10 km (6 mi) further west and closer to the sea coast.
The Ostia quarter is an active seaside resort, the official seaside resort of the city of Rome, equipped with beaches, dedicated facilities, restaurants, hotels and points of interest. Ostia, due to its historical roots and its natural characteristics, is an important tourist location. It is known and famous, as it was at its origins when it ...
Colosseum Archaeological Park • Palatine Hill • Roman Forum; Circus Maximus; Baths of Caracalla; Castel Sant'Angelo; Ostia Antica Archaeological Park; National Museum of Rome - A set of four museums in Rome displaying items discovered in Rome
Ostia Antica is the 35th zona of Rome, Italy, ... it became the museum of the archaeological area in 19th century by decision of Pope Pius IX.
Porta Ostiensis today, the location of Ostiense Museum. Ostiense is the 10th quartiere of Rome, identified by the initials Q. X. The toponym comes from the original name of the Porta San Paolo, a gate in the city walls of Rome, was Porta Ostiensis, because it was located at the beginning of Via Ostiense. It now houses the Via Ostiense Museum.
Mosaic of Triton and a Nereid, Baths of Buticosus. This small bathhouse (I, XIV, 8) was constructed during the reign of Trajan circa 110 C.E. and remodeled in the middle of the second century C.E. [19] This bath is typical of many of the balnea in Ostia, where the rooms are built into the established city grid leading to a chaotic interior layout often without a palaestra.
Articles relating to the city of Ostia Antica. It was an ancient Roman city and the port of Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber. It is located near modern Ostia, 25 km (16 mi)) southwest of Rome. Due to silting and the invasion of sand, the site now lies 3 km (2 mi) from the sea.