What You Will Do
Our Borghese Gallery tour offers an intimate and insightful exploration of one of Rome's most exquisite art collections. While many tours might rush you through the highlights, we take the time to delve deep, ensuring you understand not just the art, but the stories, controversies, and passions behind each piece. Paired with our accredited guide's vast knowledge and infectious enthusiasm, you're guaranteed a memorable and enriching experience. With us, it's not just about seeing art; it's about experiencing its soul.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Itinerary
Meeting Point
The guide will be waiting in front of the Borghese Gallery entrance.
The guide will be holding an Eyes of Rome Semi-Private Tours sign.
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Villa Borghese
Villa Borghese is a landscape garden in the naturalistic English manner in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums (see Galleria Borghese) and attractions. It is the third largest public park in Rome (80 hectares or 197.7 acres) after the ones of the Villa Doria Pamphili and Villa Ada. The gardens were developed for the Villa Borghese Pinciana ("Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill"), built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese, who used it as a villa suburbana, a party villa, at the edge of Rome, and to house his art collection. The gardens as they are now were remade in the early nineteenth century.
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Galleria Borghese
1 hour 30 minutes
The Galleria Borghese is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. At the outset, the gallery building was integrated with its gardens, but nowadays the Villa Borghese gardens are considered a separate tourist attraction. The Galleria Borghese houses a substantial part of the Borghese collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V (reign 1605–1621). The Villa was built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese himself, who used it as a villa suburbana, a country villa at the edge of Rome.
Scipione Borghese was an early patron of Bernini and an avid collector of works by Caravaggio, who is well represented in the collection by his Boy with a Basket of Fruit, St Jerome Writing, Sick Bacchus and others. Other paintings of note include Titian's Sacred and Profane Love, Raphael's Entombment of Christ and works by Peter Paul Rubens and Federico Barocci.
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Apollo and Daphne
15 minutes
The "Apollo and Daphne" sculpture in Rome's Borghese Gallery is a masterpiece by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Created between 1622-1625, it depicts the moment nymph Daphne transforms into a laurel tree to escape Apollo's pursuit, encapsulating the story's drama and emotion in exquisitely detailed marble.
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