Ostia Antica
Ostia Antica is an ancient Roman city and the port of Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber. It is near modern Ostia, 25 km southwest of Rome. Due to silting and the invasion of sand, the site now lies 3 km from the sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: ancient Roman city and colony
- Also known as: “Ostia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Basilica of Santa Aurea and Rocca di Ostia.
Basilica of Santa Aurea
Church
Photo: Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Basilica of Santa Aurea is a church situated in the Ostia Antica district of Ostia, Italy. Ostia became an episcopal see as early as the 3rd century AD. The present-day church, completed in 1483, is the cathedral of the suburbicarian diocese of Ostia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Isola Sacra and Ostia.
Isola Sacra
Suburb
Photo: Dtom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Isola Sacra is a suburb, which is situated 4 km west of Ostia Antica.
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.
Acilia
Town
Photo: Fontema, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Acilia is a neighborhood and a frazione of Rome, Italy, located about half- way between Rome and Ostia, along the Via Ostiense. With a population 66,932 in 2008 it is the third largest Italian frazione after Ostia and Mestre. Acilia is situated 5 km east of Ostia Antica.
Ostia Antica
- Categories: archaeological site, ancient city, and locality
- Location: Municipio Roma X, Rome, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
41.76791° or 41° 46′ 5″ northLongitude
12.30831° or 12° 18′ 30″ eastElevation
3 metres (10 feet)United Nations Location Code
IT SITOpen location code
8FHJQ895+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 291910300OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
8378691Wikidata ID
Q1012797
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Waray—“Ostia Antica” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ostia Antica”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ὠστία”
- Arabic: “أوستيا أنتيكا”
- Arabic: “أوستيا”
- Armenian: “Օստիա Անտիկա”
- Asturian: “Ostia Antica”
- Asturian: “Ostia”
- Basque: “Ostia”
- Belarusian: “Остыя-Антыка”
- Bulgarian: “Ostia Antica”
- Bulgarian: “Остия Антика”
- Catalan: “Ostia Antica”
- Catalan: “Ostia”
- Catalan: “Òstia”
- Chinese: “古奥斯提亚”
- Chinese: “古奥斯提亚港”
- Chinese: “古奧斯提亞港”
- Chinese: “奥斯提亚港”
- Chinese: “奥斯蒂亚港”
- Chinese: “奧斯提亞安提卡”
- Croatian: “Ostia”
- Czech: “Ostia Antica”
- Dutch: “Ostia Antica”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوستيا انتيكا”
- Esperanto: “Ostia Antica”
- Esperanto: “Ostia”
- Esperanto: “Ostio”
- Estonian: “Ostia Antica”
- Finnish: “Ostia Antica”
- Finnish: “Ostia”
- French: “Ostie”
- Galician: “Ostia Antica”
- Georgian: “ოსტია-ანტიკა”
- German: “Ostia Antica”
- Greek: “Όστια Αντίκα”
- Hebrew: “אוסטיה”
- Hungarian: “Ostia Antica”
- Indonesian: “Ostia Antica”
- Irish: “Ostia”
- Italian: “Ostia Antica”
- Italian: “Ostia”
- Japanese: “オスティア・アンティカ”
- Japanese: “オスティア”
- Kazakh: “Остия Антика”
- Korean: “오스티아 안티카”
- Latin: “Ostia”
- Neapolitan: “Ostia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ostia Antica”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ostia”
- Norwegian: “Ostia Antica”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ostia”
- Persian: “استیا آنتیکا”
- Polish: “Ostia Antica”
- Polish: “Ostia”
- Portuguese: “Ostia Antica”
- Portuguese: “Ostia”
- Portuguese: “Óstia”
- Romanian: “Ostia”
- Russian: “Остия Антика”
- Russian: “Остия-Антика”
- Sardinian: “Ostia Antiga”
- Serbian: “Ostija”
- Serbian: “Остиа”
- Serbian: “Остија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ostia Antica”
- Slovak: “Ostia Antica”
- Slovak: “Ostia”
- Slovenian: “Ostia Antica”
- Spanish: “Ostia Antica”
- Spanish: “Ostia”
- Swedish: “Ostia Antica”
- Swedish: “Ostia”
- Tagalog: “Ostia Antica”
- Turkish: “Ostia Antica”
- Ukrainian: “Остія Антика”
- Urdu: “اوستیا”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ostia Antica”
- “Ostia”
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