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Please note that large bags, rucksacks, pushchairs and umbrellas are not permitted in the Houses. Dogs are not permitted, not even on a leash.
There is no supplement to the price of the entrance ticket for opening the decorated houses.
Description
Ancient Ostia preserves one of the most important painting heritages of the Roman world in the imperial age. The insulae and domus - the subject of the itinerary - are residential in character and were inhabited by a wealthy merchant and entrepreneurial class, endowed with good financial resources: they commissioned the work of embellishing the walls, ceilings and vaults of the dwellings with fine frescoes which, to this day, constitute the most significant evidence of Roman painting after the destruction of Pompeii.