Portus
Portus was a large artificial harbour complex of Ancient Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It was established by Claudius and enlarged by Trajan to supplement the nearby port of Ostia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: large artificial harbor of Ancient Rome
- Also known as: “Area Archeologica del Porto di Traiano”, “Porto (Italy)”, “Porto, Italy”, “Portus Augusti”, and “Portus Romanus”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Isola Sacra Necropolis and Museo delle navi romane.
Isola Sacra Necropolis
Archaeological site
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The Isola Sacra Necropolis or Necropolis of Portus in the Isola Sacra was the first large-scale pagan cemetery of Roman Imperial times to be excavated. Isola Sacra Necropolis is situated 1 km southeast of Portus.
Museo delle navi romane
Museum
Photo: Carlo Dani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Museo delle navi romane is a museum, which is situated 1¼ km north of Portus.
Fiumicino Aeroporto Railway Station
Railway station
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Fiumicino Aeroporto railway station, or Fiumicino Airport railway station, is sited within the Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport in Fiumicino, Lazio, central Italy. Fiumicino Aeroporto Railway Station is situated 2 km north of Portus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Isola Sacra and Ostia.
Ostia
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Ostia is in Lazio, Italy, close to Rome's major airport of Fiumicino. This article covers both the archaeological site Ostia Antica at the south-western end of Rome's district with the same name, and the nearby beach area Lido di Ostia.
Focene
Suburb
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Focene is a suburb, which is situated 5 km northwest of Portus.
Portus
- Categories: ancient port, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Fiumicino, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Portus” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Портус”
- Chinese: “波尔都斯”
- Dutch: “Porto”
- Dutch: “Portus”
- Esperanto: “Portus”
- Finnish: “Portus”
- French: “Portus”
- German: “Portus Romae”
- Greek: “Πόρτους”
- Italian: “Porto di Claudio”
- Italian: “Porto di Roma”
- Italian: “Porto”
- Italian: “Portus”
- Japanese: “オスティア港”
- Korean: “포르투스”
- Latin: “Portum Ostiae”
- Polish: “Portus”
- Portuguese: “Porto de Trajano”
- Portuguese: “Porto”
- Russian: “Порт (порт Древнего Рима)”
- Russian: “Порт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Portus”
- Slovenian: “Portus”
- Spanish: “Portus”
- Turkish: “Portus Romae”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Portus”. Photo: Raboe001, CC BY-SA 3.0.