Rome Trip Overview
One of the most important museums in Europe: Capitoline Museums are certainly among the most famous in the Eternal City. Its incredible collections include priceless pieces: Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, the Spinario, Mosaic of the Doves, Statue of “Capitoline Gaul”, Bust of Medusa, Bust of Commodus as Hercules, Capitoline Brutus….
Your guide will meet you at your hotel to make your way to the first destination. At the end of the visit to the Museums, a private driver will take you and your guide to Ostia Antica. Ostia is the ancient port of Rome. You will walk in the ancient streets of the city preserved over the centuries in all its beauty. Structures of ancient houses, thermal baths with original mosaic decorations, workshops, and remains of Temples will make you travel back in time on an unforgettable visit. Your private guide will always be at your disposal until you return to your hotel. Tickets are all included.
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Duration: 6 hours
Starts: Rome, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Rome, Lazio, Italy
One of the most important museums in Europe: Capitoline Museums are certainly among the most famous in the Eternal City. Its incredible collections include priceless pieces: Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, the Spinario, Mosaic of the Doves, Statue of “Capitoline Gaul”, Bust of Medusa, Bust of Commodus as Hercules, Capitoline Brutus….
Your guide will meet you at your hotel to make your way to the first destination. At the end of the visit to the Museums, a private driver will take you and your guide to Ostia Antica. Ostia is the ancient port of Rome. You will walk in the ancient streets of the city preserved over the centuries in all its beauty. Structures of ancient houses, thermal baths with original mosaic decorations, workshops, and remains of Temples will make you travel back in time on an unforgettable visit. Your private guide will always be at your disposal until you return to your hotel. Tickets are all included.
Stop At: Musei Capitolini, Piazza del Campidoglio 1, 00186 Rome Italy
The creation of the Capitoline Museums has been traced back to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of bronze statues of great symbolic value to the People of Rome.It’s a single museum containing a group of art and archaeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, The historic seats of the museums are Palazzo dei Conservatori and Palazzo Nuovo, facing on the central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo in 1536 and executed over a period of more than 400 years. Since then, the museums’ collection has grown to include many ancient Roman statues, inscriptions, and other artifacts; a collection of medieval and Renaissance art; and collections of jewels, coins, and other items. The museums are owned and operated by the municipality of Rome.
The statue of a mounted rider in the centre of the piazza is of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. It is a copy, the original being housed on-site in the Capitoline museum.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Ostia Antica, Ostia Antica, Province of Rome, Lazio
As its own name suggests (from the Latin ostium = mouth of a river) Ostia was built at the mouth of the Tiber at the Tyrrhenian Sea. Before the crippling flood of 1557 the riverbed was significantly different from the current one, its waters ran along the northern part of the city and the coastline was closer than it is today to the buildings. According to the legend, Ancus Marcius king of Rome, founded Ostia in 620 BC as a crucial spot to make use of the salt pans at the mouth of the Tiber. The oldest archaeological remains however, date back much later, to the second half of the 4th century BC, and belong to an armed camp (Lat. castrum) built in tufa blocks: it was built by roman settlers to protect the river’s mouth and the Lazio coast.
Duration: 2 hours
