Ostia

Ostia

A day out in Ostia

The sea end of Rome, reached by the train from Piramide, with a pine forest behind the beach that goes on for kilometres.

5 days outthe nearest is a 38 min drive from Rome

This is the closest coast to the city and it is nobody's postcard, but it is where Romans sail and ride. There are schools on the seafront that will put you on the helm the same afternoon, and stables inside the Castelporziano pinewood that ride out through the trees and come onto the sand at the end.

The old village up the road, next to the excavations, is a walled block of brick with a Renaissance church in the middle of it, and it takes twenty minutes to walk round.

On the water

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A sailing boat on open blue sea On the water

Introductory sailing lesson off Ostia

Forty-five minutes from Piramide by train, then you take the helm off Ostia.

€45 per person

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On horseback

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In the old stones

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Ostia In the old stones

The basilica of Sant'Aurea

A Renaissance cathedral at Lido di Ostia, from the fifteenth century.

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Ostia In the old stones

Fontana dello Zodiaco

A fountain at Lido di Ostia, from the twentieth century.

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Just turn up — open air, any hour

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Getting there

An easy run out of Rome — make it a comfortable one

How to get there

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