Civitavecchia Italy

Civitavecchia is the port for Rome. Rome is where most of the ship's passengers went. I decided to explore Civitavecchia and see what I might find.

I didn't find much. Pic. 1 is of the old fort where the shuttle bus drops you off. There were no tours of the fort. When facing the town from this fort, if you went left there were some old Roman ruins of the port. I didn't see this until later when I was on a bus so didn't get a close look at them.

First I visited a church. There is a museum behind the McDonalds but only the lower floor was open in the morning and there wasn't much on the lower floor. It was a very small display and all the signs were in Italian so I couldn't tell what I was looking at. I then wandered until I found the vegetable market (pic. 1), fish and meat market and sort of a clothes open market. These were interesting but I had 8 hours to fill and this wasn't going to do it.

I made my way back to the center of town and checked out the taxi fares for a tour of nearby towns. The suggested route was Tarquinia and Tuscania and the fare was 120 Euros. I set out to find some passengers to share. The taxi driver lowered the fare to 100 Euros and I still couldn't find anyone. I inquired at a shop (the information kiosk was closed) about alternatives and found out the train went there. I headed to the train station to catch the next train. It didn't leave for over an hour. I asked the taxi drivers there how much and they said 200 Euros. Clearly progress had not been made. I checked the bus schedule and couldn't figure out where I was so couldn't figure out which schedule to look at to get there.

At this point I decided to bail and head back to the ship to catch the ship's tour called "Medieval Hills and Olive Oil". It was an excellent choice and a fun tour. However I can't figure out how they can get away with listing things that you don't see. One part of the description says "Tour a 12th century church". We toured no church. However as I said before, it was a fun tour.

Also I would note that based on a tourist map I later acquired the train doesn't seem to get you very close to the actual town so a taxi or the bus would be a better option.