Excellent experience! Our guide, Matteo was knowledgeable and entertaining.
About Activity
What's Included
Includes
- Headsets and radios to hear the guide clearly (if option selected)
- Guaranteed small group of 15 Participants max
- Skip-the-Line entrance to Borghese Gallery
- Art historian guide (if option selected)
Excludes
- Hotel pick-up and drop-off
- Gratuities
Departure & Return
Departure Point
- Meet your host at the front of the Borghese Gallery, by the drinking-water fountain "La Fontana dei Mascheroni." Look for the purple "Crown Tours" t-shirt. Please arrive 15 minutes before the start time, as late arrivals may not be allowed on the tour.
Return
- Meet your host at the front of the Borghese Gallery, by the drinking-water fountain "La Fontana dei Mascheroni." Look for the purple "Crown Tours" t-shirt. Please arrive 15 minutes before the start time, as late arrivals may not be allowed on the tour.
Itinerary
Enter the Borghese Gallery with skip-the-line access and spend 2 hours surrounded by some of Rome’s most celebrated masterpieces. Admire Bernini’s dramatic sculptures, Caravaggio’s powerful paintings, and works by Raphael and other masters as you move through the gallery’s elegant rooms. Depending on the option selected, enjoy the visit with a live expert guide or explore independently with an audio guide.
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Reviews
Wonderful in depth excursion to the Borghese Gallery. Our guide was top notch. He taught us the beauty of sculpture. I’ll never look at it the same way again. Thank you!
The gide was very nice and the gallery was mind-blowing, considering what kind of art is in the gallery! But I felt like instead of focusing for 10 minutes on one item, we could have spent 2 minutes on five different art pieces and didn't have to skip many of them this way. I understand that since we couldn't keep water with us, the whole tour was cut short to 1 and a half hours, but still, I think no one needs to listen ten minutes about one statue. I would like to add that The Crown tour operator Julia, who met us in the front, told us that "it's more convenient for people to meet at the other spot, other than the exact meeting point in instructions, after I told her it says to meet by the water fountain. No one was waiting there. I noticed some attitude in her voice. I think people need to recognize that many of us travel alone and get nervous. Meeting rules means for everyone, not only for visitors. Please keep in mind that operators do what they want sometimes and even if it says meeting point at such and such place, keep your eyes open or call them directly and ask em where you should meet them precicely. This was not appreciated.
The tour guide made the Borghese less overwhelming by picking great pieces of artwork to educate and focus our group tour on.
Gallery Borghese was just amazing! We did not know what to expect, but it was an absolute treasure chest of artists.
Fantastic experience, collection is of course unmatched, our group had a superb guide - truly awesome
Request Victoria to be your tour guide. She was nice, knowledgeable and friendly. She was also patient.
A must see when in Rome! The museum is incredible and you could spend all day touring the grounds! Our guide was very knowledgeable and did a great job explaining what we were seeing. Would do again!
It is a lovely museum. We enjoyed Victoria as our tour guide which was a very nice way to get educated about the masterpieces
A beautiful museum. Wonderful guide. They check oversized bags. Wonderful bathroom in lower level. Places to sit in some of the rooms. And outside.
Our tour guide was exceptional: so knowledgeable, but also with an engaging sense of humor. I enjoyed following an artist through several rooms to see his development. Also, having endured massive crowds at The Vatican, I very much appreciated The Borghese Gallery limiting the number of visitors.
Victoria was amazing and the whole gallery has some of the most beautiful pieces of art! Will recommend!
Seamless process, Victoria was our (Art Historian) guide and she was great!
Victoria , our guide was excellent! Highly recommend this tour.
Victoria was terrific. Highly recommend this tour.
Knowledgeable and experienced guide in a unbelievable museum, not to be missed. Beautiful beyond imagination
It was great to do this visit as a guided tour. There is so much to learn and so much meaning everywhere. Our guide Federico was very knowledgeable.
Totally enjoyed the learning experience for the significance of the work as well as experiencing the magic!
Frederico was so fantastic. Really top notch guide with a lot of knowledge of the history of the Borghese family and of the sculptures, paintings and artists’ lives, (Bernini, Raphael, Caravaggio etc). He was very polite and I just can’t imagine having a better guide. Many thanks!
The Borghese Villa was magnificent and our guide was excellent. So much to marvel at! The meeting instructions could have been simpler by just saying go to the Villa entrance. We got there just in time. An unforgettable experience and must do when in Rome. I would do the tour again.
Victoria was an excellent authority on the subject of art history and we enjoyed her insights at the Borghese Gallery tour.
I did a tour of the Borghese with my husband. It was a great experience, and we learned so much about the art and history. Our guide Victoria was very knowledgeable and thoughtful, we are glad we booked!
Tickets hard to get. Our guide was well worth the extra cost for small gyy try out tour
It was a bit hard to find the meeting point but once the tour started it was good. A beautiful Art Gallery with tons of famous art. Our tour guide was very enthusiastic and as advertise was an Art historian & very knowledgeable. It was a little busy inside, but the garden is huge and open to the public (It is a city park basically) so people were spread out. The price was a bit High, but I wanted to learn about art that I don't really know about, so I wanted the guided tour and it paid off. It was worth it, but if you just want to look at the art & read the plaques you could do a much cheaper self audio guide. It took about 2 hours to go through. Lots of walking on this one & stairs & hills in the garden.
Many people told us the Borghese Gallery was the most beautiful gallery in all of Rome and I would have to agree. This gallery should be a must see for any visitors to Rome. The mix of statues and paintings is stunning. My only complaint is that I would have liked more time to see everything. Our guide, Viktoria, was very knowledgeable about the artists and the individual pieces and walked us through the history of the collection.
This was a fabulous tour through the Borghese. Agnes was very knowledgeable and easy to understand. Her insights into particular pieces was extraordinary. The pace was just right, crowds were low so we had time and space.
Great guided tour of the Borghese Gallery. Learned a lot about the history of the paintings and sculptures there that I would never have learned otherwise. Guide also kept us engaged.
Was exactly what we needed to Get into the gallery when we wanted to. Well worth the visit. Highly recommend.
The guide Frederico was outstanding. He loved his subject. Enthraling
Everything was perfect organized. Viktoria is very nice and professional guide 👏
Victoria was excellent. Very knowledgeable and interesting to listen to.
Great tour. Very in depth tour of the pieces and history of the art collection. Wasn’t too crowded and ear pieces were provided to listen to the tour guide.
Our guide was amazing! Knowledgable, friendly, funny…even mischievous at times with her “insider” insights. A delightful and memorable tour.
Artwork guide was FRED. He was amazing. It was our last tour in a month long trip in Italy, where we went on about 10 different tours and it was our best by far. He was so passionate and so knowledgeable about all of the artwork and the backstory of the statues, etc., etc. we thoroughly enjoyed it on a further note I was traveling with two career artist artists engineer design designers, so for them to have the same feeling is really telling it was our favorite highly recommend it is a can't miss and I hope you get a tour guide as good as ours.
Bianca was ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE! We enjoyed every minute of our tour. She was an incredible guide and made the experience.
Fabulous experience with a really knowledgeable and friendly guide. Highly recommend. Well worth the money.
The tour guide was excellent. She was very knowledgeable and personable. It was better than we expected. I would strongly recommend it
Absolutely fantastic place where you can come close to precious works of Bernini and other amazing artist of Baroque and neo Renaissance., Very good tour guide with a lot of interesting information, very well organized. We could find a place where to check in quickly. Would definitely recommend this to everyone coming to Rome
Much easier to tour than Vatican. Gallery organized more by theme rather than 100 yards of lines of statues like Vatican museum. Lovely grounds, excellent group guide. Small, group of six.
Our guide Agnes was very knowledgeable and passionate about the magnificent artworks in the collection. She brought the museum to life for us!
federico was a phenomenal tour guide! extremely knowledgeable and funny. we enjoyed so much and would recommend him to anyone looking to learn a lot about the art and the gallery itself.
Ticket price is a rip off but it the only way to see this amazing gallery.
Our tour guide was AMAZING!! I almost cried looking at the art and the way she presented it was so perfect for my husband and I as well as our children who are 10 and 13. Just spectacular! I love that the museum does timed tours to avoid it being too crowded and loud. You got to be a part of the rooms and the themes and it was quite beautiful
Excellent tour with Frederico ! Very informative
Christa was amazing! Very knowledgeable, funny, so kind and accommodating for special needs. 10/10 would recommend her for any guided experience
We enjoyed our tour with Victoria, our guide , very much indeed! She was extremely friendly, knowledgeable and set a good pace. Congratulations to her!
We had an amazing time at the Borghese gallery. Our tour guide Victoria was wonderful, very knowledgeable and friendly. Highly recommend you visit this gallery in Rome, it is full of amazing art from different time periods.
Excellent tour. Victoria was very knowledgeable.
Victoria was wonderful!!! The pick up was easy and Victoria was very knowledgeable. Excellent trip.
We had a great experience today during the guided tour of the Villa Borghese booked with Get your guide and provided by Crown Tours. Our guide, Victoria, an art historian, was extraordinary, very knowledgeable and nice, she shared with us many stories about the beautiful collections and artists. Highly recommending this tour.
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