--- title: Borghese Gallery, Canova’s Masterpieces Skip-the-Line Guided Tour lang: en type: tour city: Rome country: Italy price: 65 currency: EUR price_unit: per_person availability: bookable rating: 4.72 reviews: 1224 duration_minutes: 120 languages: [en] free_cancellation: true schedule_checked: 2026-09-12 data_updated: 2026-09-13 canonical: https://guidekin.com/italy/rome/tours/borghese-gallery-canova-s-masterpieces-skip-the-line-guided-tour/ --- # Borghese Gallery, Canova’s Masterpieces Skip-the-Line Guided Tour **Guidekin's take:** A skip the line Borghese Gallery visit in a group of fifteen with the guide focused on the sculpture, Canova and Bernini, alongside Caravaggio's early paintings, then the gardens on your own, rated 4.72 across 1224 reviews. Reserved entry and the guided visit are included at €65 per person, pickup and food are not. Bags of any size go to the cloakroom. ## Overview Enjoy the Borghese Gallery and Villa Borghese Gardens in Rome with skip-the-line admission and a guided walking tour limited to 15 people. This popular attraction often sells out in advance, so by pre-booking a ticket, visit one of the world’s most beautiful art museums hosting the works of extraordinary artists. Admire Caravaggio’s most important paintings, among which “Young sick Bacchus” and “Boy with a Basket of Fruit”; Bernini and Canova’s magnificent sculptures’ collection, boasting works like “Apollo and Daphne”, “David”, “The Rape of Proserpina” and “Paolina Bonaparte”. Of course the tour won’t miss out on Raffaello’s “Entombment of Christ”. The guide will lead the tour through the marvelous rooms of Casina Borghese, with its splendid frescoes, disclose the secrets, the stories and the painting techniques concealed behind the masterpieces of one of the world’s most beautiful art museum. Villa Borghese gardens and gallery, you cannot miss it when you visit Rome. ## Key facts - Price: from €65 per person - Duration: 2h - Rating: 4.72/5 from 1224 reviews (collected from Guidekin & Viator & Tripadvisor) - Free cancellation (see policy below) - Operator: Loving Rome ## What's included - No additional fees or taxes - Walking tour of Villa Borghese Gardens (No Guide) - Borghese Gallery guided visit (2 hours) - Guaranteed to skip the long lines ## Not included - Food and drinks - Hotel pickup and drop-off ## Itinerary 1. **Villa Borghese** (15m; admission included) - The best way for us to describe the Villa Borghese gardens is: As the keeper of the Villa Borghese Pinciana, I publicly declare: whoever you are, providing to be a freeman, fear no hindrance here; go where you like, ask what you wish; leave when you want. Everything you see... 2. **Galleria Borghese** (1h 45m; admission included) - We will visit one of the world’s most beautiful art museum hosting the works of extraordinary artists such as Bernini, Caravaggio, Canova and Raffaello. The gallery’s most important sculptures and paintings are from Cardinal Scipione Borghese’s collection (1579 - 1633). We’ll... ## Schedule - Runs: daily - Departures: 10 start times between 09:00 and 17:45 - Schedule last checked: 2026-09-12 - These are published departures, not a live seat count; availability is confirmed at checkout. ## Cancellation For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time. ## Meeting point Departure Point: We will meet in front of Borghese Gallery entrance Directions: Please arrive in front of the main entrance to the Borghese Gallery 15 minutes before the activity starts. Our staff will be meeting you holding a “Loving Rome” flag. Dates: See Availability ## Good to know - Wheelchair accessible - Public transportation options are available nearby - Suitable for all physical fitness levels - Dress code is smart casual - Travelers with excessive sized bags will have certain problems, please note that small or large bags are not permitted inside the Borghese Gallery, and will need to be checked in at the cloakroom before the tour to be collected afterwards. ## More in Rome - All Rome tours: https://guidekin.com/italy/rome/?format=md - This page as HTML: https://guidekin.com/italy/rome/tours/borghese-gallery-canova-s-masterpieces-skip-the-line-guided-tour/ ## Query this catalogue with URLs Every listing accepts filter parameters directly in the URL, so you can hand a user a link that already matches their constraints. 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