Borghese Gallery Private Tour

Tour includes: Overview of the Villa Borghese and its gardens (former residence to Cardinal Scipione Borghese), Guided private tour in English of the largest collection of sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini including the Apollo and Daphne, masterpieces by Canova, Caravaggio, and Titian.  

The Borghese Gallery is  one of  Europe  finest art collections, housed in an elegant suburban villa built for the Cardinal Scipione Borghese at the beginning of the 16th century. 

Many of its ceilings have some of the most remarkable frescoes of the late 1700’s perfectly preserved.

This gallery is sure to impress you, with  paintings of the masters Raphael with his touching Deposition from the cross,  Titian’s mastepiece in pure venetian style of the Sacred and Profane Love , and Caravaggio, a controversial but ingenius and innovative 17th century painter with his unique use of “chiaroscuro” (darkness and light) and profound subjects such as David With The Head of Goliath.

Scipione  was an important patron of the arts and sought to acquire ancient sculptures which you will admire inside the Villa, but above all else he was the first patron in Rome of the young Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the genius of the Baroque who mastered the ability to fight gravity and win.

You will experience the power, courage and emotion of Bernini’s David, the fear emanating from the young Prosperina in the Rape of Prosperina, and the extreme desperation of the Apollo an Daphne, when Daphne is caught in the extraordinary  moment just as her flesh transforms into a tree while escaping from Apollo’s grasp.

The visit will culminate with a tribute to the grace ond smoothness of the marble used in the  sculpture of Paolina Borhese by Antonio Canova, a sophisticated work of Napoleon’s sister made for her husband, a member of the Borghese family.

Tour duration: 3 hours

Tour cost: (total, not per person):
1-3 people: 225 Euro
4-6 people: 275 Euro

7-9 people: 350 Euro

10-15 people: 425 Euro (inquire about larger groups)

Not included in the tour cost are entrance fees of 11 Euro per person, payable at the start of the tour

Meeting Point: Ticket office at the Borghese Gallery Museum

Tour time: times between 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM are available. Do advise of your preferred tour time and we will do our best to accommodate your request.

A 25 Euro discount is offered in the event of cash payment! To take advantage of this offer, instead of paying for your tours in full, simply leave a 50 Euro deposit per private tour.