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Borghese Gallery Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Entry
Borghese Gallery Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Entry
Borghese Gallery Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Entry
Borghese Gallery Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Entry
Borghese Gallery Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Entry

Borghese Gallery Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Entry

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Price is AU$153 per adult
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Overview

Visit Galleria Borghese with this Exclusive Semi Private small group tour limited to 15 people. Book your visit to one of the most famous villas in Rome. Enjoy the possibility to enter without queuing. Open your eyes and be dazzled by the works of Caravaggio, Canova, Bernini, and Raphael.

During this tour you will be able to know the storey behind the famous sculpture of Apollo and Daphne, you will be amazed by the wonderful works of Bernini, Canova and the most famous paintings by Caravaggio. Walk through the twenty rooms where you can admire the famous painting of “Young Sick Bacchus” by Caravaggio or the Boy with a Basket of Fruit.

Let yourself be enchanted by the works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, which comprise a significant percentage of his output of secular sculpture, starting with early works such as the Goat Amalthea with Infant Jupiter and Faun to his dynamic Rape of Proserpine, or the iconic Apollo and Daphne which are considered seminal works of baroque sculpture

Activity location

  • Apollo e Daphne
    • 00197, Roma, Lazio, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5
    • 5 Piazzale Scipione Borghese
    • 00197, Roma, Lazio, Italy

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Borghese Gallery Guided Tour
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h2h
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
AU$152.79 x 1 AdultAU$152.79
Total
Price is AU$152.79

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance fees
  • What's includedWhat's includedSkip-the-ticket-line entry
  • What's includedWhat's includedSemi Private Tour (maximum 15 people)
  • What's includedWhat's includedBorghese Gallery guided tour
  • What's includedWhat's includedHeadsets if needed
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedPrivate transport
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedSome rooms of the Gallery might be closed to visitors due to refurbishment works

Know before you book

  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Apollo e Daphne
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket included
Apollo and Daphne – a marble sculpture in the Baroque style in natural size, made by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini and executed in 1622-1625. Placed in the Borghese Gallery in Rome, this work depicts the culmination of the history of Apollo and Daphne (Phoebe and Daphne) in Ovid’s Metamorphosis.
Galleria Borghese
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket included
Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix (or Venus Victorious) is a semi-nude life-size neo-Classical portrait sculpture by the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova. It was commissioned by Pauline Bonaparte’s husband Camillo Borghese and executed in Rome from 1805 to 1808 after she married the representative of the Borghese family. Then, the sculpture moved to Camillo’s house in Turin, then to Genoa, only arriving in the Galleria Borghese around 1838.
Galleria Borghese
  • 15m
  • Admission ticket included
Two Busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese are marble portrait sculptures created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1632. Both versions of the portrait are located in the Borghese Gallery in Rome.
Galleria Borghese
  • 15m
  • Admission ticket included
Truth Unveiled by Time is a marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was executed between 1646 and 1652. The artist wanted to show Truth allegorically, as a naked young lady being unveiled by a Time figure above her. However, a figure of Time was never executed. Bernini managed to express his idea by adding the figure in 1665.
Galleria Borghese
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket included
David is a life-size marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Cardinal Scipione Borghese commissioned it to decorate the Borghese Gallery. The masterpiece was completed in seven months, from 1623 to 1624. The main subject of the sculpture is the biblical David, about to throw the stone that will bring down Goliath, which will enable David to behead him.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESApollo e Daphne
    • 00197, Roma, Lazio, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEPiazzale Scipione Borghese, 5
    • 5 Piazzale Scipione Borghese
    • 00197, Roma, Lazio, Italy

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