ROME is so full of superlative wrecks, the need may not be immediately clear for a trip to the ancient Roman port at Ostia Antica. But it's not precisely the ruins you go there to see, though they are ...

OSTIA ANTICA, Italy The ruins of Ostia, an ancient Roman port, have never captured the public imagination in the same way as those of Pompeii, perhaps because Ostia met with a less cataclysmic fate.

I have posted these directions in the past but I have updated them after my recent visit. Ostia is closed on Mondays and hopefully they are once again renting audioguides. Ostia is a close 2nd to ...