Capranica Day 2 Adventure

Medieval Capranica

Day 2
We started the day with a walk around the farm to get a few more photos of where we are staying. It real is a cool place to live for a few days. It is  comfortable and relaxing walking . Below is a sampling of Monte Casciano.

view of old town

Cats everywhere

No shortage of bells and patron saints in Italy

Morning Cappuchino

Local water spout

Our local supermarket...always fun

Cable ? Whats that ?

Ostia Antica

Ostia Antica is a large archeological site, close to the modern suburb of Ostia (Rome) that was the location of the harbour city of Ancient Rome, which is approximately 30 km to the northeast. "Ostia" in Latin means "mouth". At the mouth of the River Tiber, Ostia was Rome's seaport, but due to silting the site now lies 3 km from the sea. The site is noted for the preservation of its ancient buildings, frescoes and impressive mosaics. Ostia may have been Rome's first colony. An inscription says that Ostia was founded by Ancus Marcius, the semi-legendary fourth king of Rome, in the 7th century BC.  The city was plagued with piracy and much of the artifacts were taken by the pirates and later Roman architects to use in the construction of Rome. Also during excavations the museums collected statues , mosaics and what ever they could to preserve the importance of this city. We spent half the day walking in and out the ruins trying to imagine what it must have looked like in its day. Not an easy undertaking but it is amazing that it still is standing. Many of the ruins are labeled who lived there or what is was used for. There are many taverns and hot tub bathing areas. From the information plaques it sounded like a party place to me aside from the economic status it had. Ostia is another example on how intelligent the people were 2000 years ago. 

Oven

One of the few remaining beautiful statues with a head on it

another rare example of an intact statue

Pirates took the heads and sold them

Oldest intact statue

Rendering of what it looked like before being destroyed

Sitting in the theatre

Tom - Dick and Gary

Latin was the language of the time

Ostia already had a large college

Very precise architecture

No shortage of what direction we should go in

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Big guy needs a big door

Carolyn looking for a store

Tour guide assistance whenever you need it

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No nook goes unchecked on TTours

Now where did every one go ?

Exercising in the ruins may be a first

Damn wish they didn't take all the heads

More Latin

Another fine example of Roman garments

A two seater

Wow a three seater with drainage

Opps excuse me  ! I can visualize it all now

No head, no arms and no boobs...nothing was sacred

Nice table

Beautiful mosaic floors everywhere with Neptune designs

Volcanic basalt rock roads still there

Fresco walls in the homes. ...l

No idea 

The only remaining descendant of Ostia still living there

Nice tub carved out of stone

Olive oil containers

Fancy tub