The ruins of Portus  city (the Roman “port” by antonomasia) are at tree km about from the current shore: because of the road networks, the infrastructures and its progressive urbanization, it is difficult to find it from the land.

Trajan’s Port was placed in the centre of an internal dock, connected to the sea through the oldest dock used as a filter and to the Tiber through the artificial canal (Trajan’s hole, today canal of Fiumicino).

The eastern sector of the territory is by this time private: the State property part, even if it is the part with more monumental emergencies, does not include, up today, the great hexagonal dock, the hub of the ancient plant.

The structure of the Port had foreseen, that the load vessels, coming from west-south-west into Claudius’ dock, would direct through the wide entry canal to the mooring places of the two banks or to those more internal  of the hexagonal dock.

The goods would be partially stocked and partially transferred onto river transport boats which would leave the port through a conjunction canal with the external hole, and from there they would reach the Tiber and would go up stream up to the Roman ruins.

INFORMATION
Archaeological Objects Service of Ostia
Via dei Romagnoli 717 – 00119 Ostia Antica (RM)
Tel. +39 0656358099 – fax  +39 065651500

Bookings:  Museum of the Roman Vessels
Via A. Guidoni, 35 – 00050 Fiumicino Aeroporto (RM)
Tel. +39 06 6529192 Fax +39 06 65010089
From Tuesday to Sunday from 09:00 a.m to 01:00 p.m.; .; on Tuesday and Thursday also from 02:30 p.m. to 04:30 p.m.Closed: on Mondays; 1st January; 1st May; 25th December.
 

Ticket: the payment of the ticket is currently suspended. The visits to Trajan’s Port are thefore free, but they are allowed only with the guide of the guardian staff. Duration of the visit: 2-4 hours, according to the itinerary.

ATTENTION: in this period the Museum of Vessels is closed for functional adjustments, anyway the guard place is open which is the booking centre of the visits. Also the scheduled appointments for the guide tour without booking remain unchanged: the first Saturday and the last Sunday of every month at 09:30 a.m.