Civitavecchia Port
Some information from the official site of Civitavecchia Port
The port of Civitavecchia was found by Traiano Emperor as Rome gate and it represented for several centuries the mainly point for exchange and contacts between people of ancient "Mare Nostrum". Nowadays, Civitavecchia keeps this high position, putting at the centre of a modern and efficient railway system, by motorway and by airport that links the capital city and the centre of Italy to the rest of the world. The port of Civitavecchia, thanks to the new plan of the harbour the commercial traffic gets the 2 millions tons of goods. It is also a strategic gate to the access of the most important tourist Italian zone and to the great tour of Mediterranean cruising lines. The increment of traffic passengers it will be available by a far-sighted policy, with the institution, in the 1991, of Co-ordination of Tyrrhenian Middle that tends to costing trade (short sea shipping) between Civitavecchia and the port of Sardinia (Olbia-Golfo Aranci, Cagliari and Porto Torres).Civitavecchia is also the leader call of cruising traffic. The work for the powering of the docks and of the meeting structures, gave the possibility to register an enormous increment of cruise ships, from 50 ships of 1996 to 500 ships of 2003. Civitavecchia tries to become the most important cruising port of Mediterranean. Civitavecchia does not mean only cruising ships. The enormous grown of structure it will created to increase new traffics yet pre-existing .In a few months there is the reality of the hub of new cars for the Italian market, the iron terminal with Terni, the containers with the new dock dedicated and connected to the inter-port, the mainly creation of Italian signalman's house of motorway of the sea with the connection of Barcelona, Tolone, Tunisi, Cagliari, Palermo. The completion of new plan of port, within 2007 year, it will give to the port is own physiognomy, with the separation between the commercial part and the historical part of calls, put in the waterfront project in which the port will be integrated with the city. The development of the cruising gave to the territory the possibility to have tourism and employment, with creation of new itinerary to Rome. The Tuscia discovered its own tourist vocation, between the Etruscans, beauty landscapes and typical eon-gastronomic. Viterbo is ready to show the City of Popes, as thermal centre. Civitavecchia and the high Lazio are in the centre of world wild tour operators: a challenge to win around the port phenomena and the richness of peculiarity of the whole territory.
Our Excursion Service from the Port
Discovery Tours is a leader company based in Rome that offers services for tourists. We can offer limousine service, shore excursions service, guided tours. Discovery Tours can provide Your day starts when you are meet your english speaking driver/guide at the dock in Civitavecchia.The 90-minute drive to the Eternal City will give you a chance to share your tastes and interests, so that your driver/guide can fashion the most ideal day for you, honoring your requests whenever possible. Thanks to our driver/guide's expert knowledge of the city, you will waste no time getting lost! This means you'll be able to visit and understand the Coliseum, the Roman Forum, Piazza Venezia (wedding cake monument & Mussolini's balcony), the Capitoline hill, the Palatine hill, the Circus Maximus, the Appian way, the Catacombs, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, the Spanish Steps.
Why choose Discovery Tours Excursion Service?
Choose Discovery Tours Limousine Service Rome your Rome tour guide we'll make your shore excursion to Rome from Civitavecchia port of call the highlight of your cruise. When you are in Rome for the day, you can either take a shore excursion sponsored by the cruise ship, book an excursion on your own, or use the time to explore the city port of Civitavecchia. We can develop your own shore trip as you request. You say what yo want to see and we get you there.
We start from Civitavecchia around at the agreed time where a luxury sedan. a limo or mini van be waiting right on the pier where the ship docks. We are authorized by Italian government to enter Civitavecchia Port and go as close as possible to gangway of cruise ships so we'll park the car as close as possible to the footbridge and, in order to be identified , our driver guide post the client's name on the vehicle's windshield. The tour takes total 9 or 10 hours, from when we start at the port until we return to the ship. The drive to Rome takes about one hour and so does the trip back to the ship. The tour of Rome we'll do, is a sort of loop. Depending on the day of the week and traffic conditions, we may start from St. Peter's Basilica and end with the Colosseum or vice versa. Saturdays and Sundays are the best days to sightsee in Rome, most of the locals leave for the week-end and there's very little traffic and you can see more.
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