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Borghese Gallery Ticket + Audio Guide App or Guided Tour

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Rome, Italy
High interest
Booked 2 times today.
  • 2 to 3 hours (approx.)
  • Offered in: English

Why travelers loved this

4.5
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· Sheila_W ·
Mar 2026
Excellent tour guide, very knowledgeable, fantastic art, well worth the visit, stunning villa. Super.
· Denis_S ·
Apr 2026
Absolutely fabulous experience. Guide very knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Not at all high brow. Highly recommend

Overview

Skip the lines and explore the breathtaking Borghese Gallery at your own pace with a host. Admire masterpieces by Bernini, Caravaggio, and Raphael, including Canova’s Pauline Bonaparte, Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne, and Caravaggio’s David with the Head of Goliath. Afterward, enjoy a peaceful walk through the Villa Borghese gardens, with panoramic views overlooking Piazza del Popolo.
  • Enjoy fast-track entry and explore the Borghese Gallery at your own pace
  • Admire masterpieces by Bernini, Caravaggio, Canova, and Raphael
  • See famous works like Apollo and Daphne, and David and Goliath
  • Stroll the Villa Borghese gardens with views over Piazza del Popolo

What's Included

  • admission ticket for Borghese Gallery
  • All Fees and Taxes
  • welcome service from our coordinator
  • guided tour (if the option has been selected)
  • guided tour
  • Headsets

Meeting and Pickup

Departure Point

  • Galleria Borghese, Piazzale del Museo Borghese 5, 00197 Rome Italy

Ticket Redemption Point

Galleria Borghese, Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5, 00197 Roma RM, Italy

What To Expect

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Galleria Borghese

Admission Ticket Included

Additional Info

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Stroller accessible
  • Near public transportation
  • Most travelers can participate
  • meet your coordinator in front of the Borghese Gallery to provide you with the entry tickets. Your coordinator is wearing a blue and white uniform and will be waiting for you at the base of the steps on the right-hand side in front of the building.

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

Traveler Photos

Gallery picture 1 (from a traveler's review)

Reviews

4.5
based on 31 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor

Very good guide, Dimitri,...

JeanGuillaume_P, Apr 2026
Very good guide, Dimitri, and fluid organisation. The guide and his funny explanations were a genuine plus for this museum.

Borghese beauty

Jonathan_H, Apr 2026
This is one of Rome’s must-sees. The official Borghese webpage is crap and I suspect private tour companies buy up most of the tickets and resell them at a big markup. Our tickets via Viator were expensive (350 dollars for 3) but our tour guide was excellent — funny and super informative.

Great gallery to visit for sculptures

Elena_O, Apr 2026
Beautiful gallery to visit, plus if you have time and the weather is warm, plan some time for the gardens. If you booked a guided tour, it will be 2 hours. Our guide was very knowledgeable. No purses in the gallery, only cameras and small wallets, so be prepared to store all your stuff.

The tour guide was...

Alexandru_T, Apr 2026
The tour guide was excellent, although given the vast amount of extraordinary works of art and history in the gallery, 2 hours can never be enough to adequately take everything in. Please show up 15 min earlier in order to find your guide, and make sure the headphones provided by the tour guide work. Also please be mindful and respectful of other visitors and the museum. I’d say this is a great value for your money, despite being more expensive than the tickets on the official website. The amount of time saved by avoiding the queues and the interactive narrative provided by the guide are definitely worth the cost. Rome is a fascinating city, hands down the most beautiful city of Europe. Saving time for further exploration of the city is worth the cost.

Very nice guide....

Jitka_D, Apr 2026
Very nice guide. Interesting interpretation. But too complicated and chaotic organization. Like on every tourist destination in Rome, where you have to buy tickets in advance

Highly recommend thoroughly enjoyable experience

Denis_S, Apr 2026
Absolutely fabulous experience. Guide very knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Not at all high brow. Highly recommend

Wonderful tour and experienced guide

Rachel_a, Mar 2026
Dimitri was a wonderful tour guide. Very knowledgeable and he spoke passionately about the art. I’m sure he’s given hundreds of tours but he did an amazing job and being enthusiastic about the art. He was able to answer questions and point out details we would never have noticed. We really appreciated him

Fantastic

Marie_P, Mar 2026
Was fantastic. Our guide was amazing. Would highly recommend. We learned so much and he was very knowledgeable.

Tour was great.

Kate_S, Mar 2026
Agnes the tour guide made a great tour extraordinary. She was fantastic and made the 2 hours fly by. Our favorite tour of the week.

The Borghese villa is...

Karen_P, Mar 2026
The Borghese villa is stunning, the collection is truly wonderful. I visited last year and had to return again at the weekend , it was that good . I wouldn’t book through this company as the audio guide was a let down , just a bit about the Borghese family and the villa itself. Book direct and get better audio guide

Galleria Borghese 2 Hour Guided Tour

Sheila_W, Mar 2026
Excellent tour guide, very knowledgeable, fantastic art, well worth the visit, stunning villa. Super.

Great experience. Urs was...

Michael_H, Mar 2026
Great experience. Urs was phenomenal and was great at explaining all we were seeing. Very pleasant time.

The guide was excellent....

Richard_S, Feb 2026
The guide was excellent. He was friendly and quite knowledgeable. The museum is quite beautiful. The tour operator administering the event is the reason why I only gave 4 stars. The check-in process was chaotic and didn’t match the instructions. We were looking for a uniform of blue and white. We booked with Diamond tours but another operator fulfilled it. We almost missed our tour due to this confusion. Calling the operator resulted in dropped calls and busy signals until I got through to customer service.

Great Tour

Jenson_S, Feb 2026
Dimitri was a great Tour guide for the 11am - 1pm slot. This tour is a great option if the regular gallery tickets are booked out for the day

Best Rome gallery experience

RICHARD_M, Feb 2026
Fabulous art with an excellent guide. Skip the line to maximize your time spent in the venue. The guide focused on the best works of art and had a great sense of humor.

A Great Experience

weiglgail, Feb 2026
A first rate collection of works of art in a fabulous setting. Lovely staff and convenient facilities.

amazing knowledgeable guide

Nicole_S, Nov 2025
Very knowledgeable and entertaining guide made the museum come to life. Not to be missed Gallery exploring the glories of the baroque period.

Had an amazing tour at the Borghese due to our guide's knowledge and love of the art

David_F, Oct 2025
We were blessed to have Agnes as our guide. She was very knowledgeable about the stories behind the artwork but even more so she spoke as an art teacher or critic would which brought so much more to the experience. It was especially noted at the Caravaggio room. She has an amazing talent in bringing the works to life by revealing or commenting on the artist's motivation behind their works. We highly recommend Agnes, and wanted to let her know we sincerely appreciated her exceptional presentation. Best regards, David and Felicia Fish

Great experience!

Katinka_B, Oct 2025
Well worth the cost! Our guide was incredibly knowledgeable and her English was solid. I would definitely recommend this experience! The only piece of constructive feedback I would give is that we were told to meet our guide (who would be in a blue/white uniform) at the bottom of the stairs on the righthand side of the entry. That did not end up being the case. None of that detail proved to be true, so we had a little trouble finding our guide. However, she did call me and therefore we did connect easily, in the end!

Unique and Unusual for Rome

Alex_H, Sep 2025
Mostly about Boroque and Bernini. Unique in that the gallery is largely unchanged since the 1750's when it was completed. A mix of ancient (2000+ yo) and contemporary (400-500 yo) sculptures and paintings. Themed rooms that tell stories and well documented room by room with or without a guided tour.

Good art history tour

Vickie_L, Jul 2025
Our guide was very knowledgeable and passionate about his work. He made the most out of a single piece in every room. Great tour for adults who enjoy listening and learning about art history. Not for children.

Excellent visit and artwork.

TeresitaMaria_I, Mar 2026
It was very nice the sample but it was much more interesting with Agnes' guide. He gave us an EXCELLENT guided tour where he showed his deep knowledge of art and artists. With it the sculptures and paintings came to life, as did those who made them. Thank you!
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Great visit!

Simon_P, Mar 2026
Thank you to our guide Sabrina who made this visit very lively and highly interesting. Gallery Borghese is beautiful
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Must visit

Teresa_S, Feb 2026
Wonderful experience, spectacular museum, amazing sculptures, beautiful paintings. Very well the qr's and the audio guide through the mobile.
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Beautiful visit, some organizational details to improve

Emilie_R, Feb 2026
The Museum is beautiful, there is no doubt, it is worth it. The announcement is not very clear we offer an "audioguide" but in fact it is a guide. In addition, the name of the provider who gives the tickets is not given so it is difficult to find it.
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Real scam

Carla_A, Jan 2026
The activity is very beautiful but the price scam we have paid to book through Viator is 5 times more, admission costs 16€ alone and the queue is a couple of hours maximum. In addition at the last moment they changed our tour operator and sent us a WhatsApp warning above the time, changing the meeting point. They didn’t give us audio guide, we had to download an app to do the tour and if you don’t take the battery 100% you don’t finish it.
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The guide was excellent...

Cem_G, Oct 2025
The guide was excellent and showed us the most beautiful things with an excellent didactic sense
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High baroque

Valentin_D, Sep 2025
Excellent experience. Fair duration. Impeccable choice of works. Great aesthetic historical knowledge of the guide. Boundary group.
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