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Borghese Gallery, Canova’s Masterpieces Skip-the-Line Guided Tour

4.7(1225 reviews)Rome, Italy
2hDurationEnglishOffered inMobile ticketTicketNot includedPickupWheelchair accessibleAccessibilityEasyLevel

About this experience

Take a guided walking tour of the Borghese Gallery and Villa Borghese Gardens in Rome, featuring skip-the-line admission and a group size limited to 15 people. The tour includes access to significant works by artists such as Caravaggio, Bernini, and Canova. Notable pieces you will see include Caravaggio’s “Young sick Bacchus” and “Boy with a Basket of Fruit,” as well as Canova’s “Paolina Bonaparte” and Bernini’s “Apollo and Daphne.” The guide will share insights about the artworks and the techniques used by the artists while exploring the Casina Borghese and its frescoed rooms. Advance booking is recommended, as this attraction is popular and may sell out.

Itinerary

1

Villa Borghese

The best way for us to describe the Villa Borghese gardens is: As the keeper of the Villa Borghese Pinciana, I publicly declare: whoever you are, providing to be a freeman, fear no hindrance here; go where you like, ask what you wish; leave when you want. Everything you see was made more for the guest than for its landlord. In the golden century, when peaceful years made any thing splendid for the refined ones, the landlord forbade all iron rules for the guest. Let good faith be the only rule for our friend. But if someone, consciously and purposely, by wickedness and deceit, was to break the golden rules of courtesy, be alert, the angry keeper may break these friendly words on your head. (Latin inscription carved on marble plate at Villa Borghese).

2

Galleria Borghese

We will visit one of the world’s most beautiful art museum hosting the works of extraordinary artists such as Bernini, Caravaggio, Canova and Raffaello. The gallery’s most important sculptures and paintings are from Cardinal Scipione Borghese’s collection (1579 - 1633). We’ll admire Caravaggio’s most important paintings, among which “Young sick Bacchus” and “ Boy with a basket of fruit”; Bernini and Canova’s magnificent sculptures’ collection, boasting works like “Apollo and Daphne”, “David”, “The rape of Preserpina” and “Paolina Bonaparte”. Of course we won’t miss out on Raffaello’s “Entombment of Christ”. We will lead you through the marvelous rooms of Casina Borghese, with its splendid frescoes, we’ll disclose the secrets, the stories and the painting techniques concealed behind the masterpieces of one of the world’s most beautiful art museum. To end the tour, we’ll walk through the Villa Borghese gardens, enjoying its beauty and calm far from the roman chaos.

What's included / not included

No additional fees or taxesWalking tour of Villa Borghese Gardens (No Guide)Borghese Gallery guided visit (2 hours)Guaranteed to skip the long lines
Food and drinksHotel pickup and drop-off

Additional information

Accessibility and comfort

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Good to know

  • Dress code is smart casual
  • Travelers with excessive sized bags will have certain problems, please note that small or large bags are not permitted inside the Borghese Gallery, and will need to be checked in at the cloakroom before the tour to be collected afterwards.

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