Bath House of Neptune

Ostia Antica and Sperlonga

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September 21st 2014
Saturday Today was the day trip to Ostia Antica. The bus ride there was only an hour long. We were given a tour of all the ruins by one of the professors, John Nicolson. Most of the buildings were just the hollowed out footprints of what they used to be. The bathhouses were preserved rather well, with the tile mosaics on the floors easily visible. Most depicted elements of water, such as ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more