The Thermopolium and the apartment houses

On via di Diana, a step from the forum, is the Thermopolium, a Roman bar with its marble counter, the shelf where food was displayed and a courtyard with benches. Around it are insulae, brick blocks of flats of several storeys, with stairs that climbed to the floors above: the House of Diana is the best known. It is the part of Ostia that best explains how ordinary people lived, and the one children like most.