Ostia Antica; Almost the Sea Pt.1

Greatings everyone! What a day full of adventure we had today. Our studio took a field trip out of Citta di Roma and went to the small ruins of the abandoned town of Ostia Antica. The city of Rome is quite the sprawl, but just like NYC, it just takes a short time on a train to leave the sprawl and Vespa exhaust behind for a countryside with clean air that smelt of rain and pine trees. The city of Ostica used to lie along the trading route that is the Tiber River and was later abandoned for a greater facility constructed under the Emperor Trajan. It is now a park of ruins that has a museum full of statuary and decorative cornices. Unfortunately you could not take pictures of the antiquities in the museum, but the ruins are quite beautiful in their own right. Lots of pictures again today and Friday will have a great deal too (this time I will remember to put the SD card in my camera before leaving my flat... Sorry about last Friday).

Ruins and the old Roman road which serves as a path

The Necropolis of Ostica

Wealthy houses and a glimpse of mosaic floors.

The bath-house of Ostica. This used to be one building, a really dang big one.

The baths again... They later served as the Catholic basilica in Ostica, 

Patrick next to the old Roman road. (Pat has been riding a bus out every morning to do his bike training on roads that are significantly less insane.)

The remnants of a Temple in Ostica. I cannot remember who it was dedicated to.

The theatre in Ostica

Gorgeous...

 Bo is featured twice in this photostitch... And this is magnificent!

It is acoustically formed, so if you talk right here everyone can hear you, and you even get an echo of your own voice.

The backdrop to the stage.

Wow...

Magnificent!