Villa Borghese
Relax over a picnic lunch in the Villa Borghese. This beautiful park, once owned by the Borghese family is a landscaped garden containing fountains, sculptures, and several villas. Dubbed the 'park of museums,' the Villa Borghese Park is home to several significant museums. The Museo e Galleria Borghese, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, and Museo Nazionale Etrusco all contain paintings, sculptures, and antiques from the Borghese collection and beyond.

Fun Facts

• Scipione Borghese used the house as a villa suburbana, or party villa, as well as to house his art collection.


• The Triton statues in the Villa Borghese look exactly like the statues on the Fontana del Moro at Piazza Navona. The originals were moved to the villa, the statues on the piazza are actually 19th-century replicas!


• The main floor of the Museo Borghese is mostly devoted to classical antiquities of the First and Third centuries AD, including a famous 320-30 AD mosaic of gladiators, and classical and neo-classical sculptures such as the "Venus Victrix" and Bernini's famous "Apollo and Daphne."

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Villa Borghese