Ostia Antica Small-Group Guided Tour with Entry Tickets

Explore Ostia Antica on a morning small-group guided tour with an expert English-speaking guide through its best-preserved ruins.

Getting started

Begin your Morning Guided Tour from Rome with entry to Ostia Antica included in your ticket. After you meet your English-speaking professional guide and your small-group is assembled, your admission tickets are handled for you at the site entrance. From here, you step straight into the archaeological area to start exploring in the cooler morning hours.

What to expect

Ostia Antica

This ancient Roman port city is your single main stop, explored on foot with your guide leading the route through key public spaces, bath complexes, housing blocks, and religious buildings.

Features

• Start in the massive Roman theatre, a 4,000-seat arena where you can climb to the top tiers for a wide view of the ancient city layout around you. Your guide explains how performances and public gatherings once filled these stone seats.
• Continue to the Baths of Neptune to see the black-and-white mosaics, including detailed floor art of the sea god racing across the waves with marine creatures, while you learn how Romans used these baths in daily life.
• Step into the Thermopolium, an authentic Roman fast-food bar preserved with a stone serving counter, fresco menu panels, and built-in sinks that show how food and drink were served on the go.
• Walk through the Square of the Corporations, the bustling commercial hub where floor mosaics still advertise ancient shipping merchants and trade guilds that operated out of Ostia’s port.
• Explore the Insulae, the ancient high-rises of Ostia Antica, multi-story brick apartment blocks that reveal how ordinary Romans lived, worked, and socialized in close quarters.
• Visit the mighty Capitolium, the city’s main forum temple, and stand in front of its remains while your expert English-speaking guide connects this structure to religious and civic life.
• Benefit from a small-group tour format with a morning departure time slot, which keeps the group size more personal and allows time for questions as you visit the theatre, Baths, Thermopolium, Square, Insulae, and Capitolium within Ostia Antica.