borghese gallery

We must reserve the ticket in advance as only a limited number of persons can enter the gallery. The guide accompanies you to visit the typical example of an antique-style suburban villa, once surrounded with vineyards, vegetable gardens, hunting grounds.

The interior is richley decorated and houses Cardinal Scipio Borghese's collection Renaissaince and Baroque art evokes a new golden age.

Later an besides Bernini's life-like statues and famous paintings Scipio's collection was enriched with other masterpieces such as the stunning statue of Pauline Borghese, Napoleon's sister.