Borghese Gallery

More than just a great museum, the Borghese gallery is a beautiful villa with masterpieces by Bernini, Caravaggio, Raffaello, Canova. You will enjoy frescoes, marble, stucco, paintings and interior design.
One of my favorite place in the city!

Closed on Monday.
Reservations required. Tickets 12 €.

Info about Borghese Gallery

The Galleria Borghese is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. It is a building that was from the first integral with its gardens, nowadays considered quite separately by tourists as the Villa Borghese gardens. 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 party 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.

GALLERIA BORGHESE
Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5 – 00197 Roma, Italia
www.galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it

OPENING HOURS
From Tuesday to Sunday: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
No entry after 5 p.m. – Close on Monday