Go! So peaceful and beautiful. Commune with the plants, pack a picnic, watch some bugs, enjoy all…read morethe ancient varieties of trees and flowers. Wonderful!

5 euro regular admission but I paid the 4 euro price for students. Well worth it if you want to…read morereset your nasal passages from car exhaust and cigarettes. The grounds are very large and you could spend hours here. You very much feel like you're in an isolated nature preserve and not in Rome. There's also a stone staircase with a fountain at the top that's just lovely. Keep going up to the garden's western limits and it's a short walk away from the Garibaldi monument and Fontana dell'Acqua Paola (once you leave you can't get back in)

Well if you want to get away from lot of tourist this it. The place is quite and not as many people…read morego here compared to St. Peter Basilica and Vatican museum, plus its fun on a good weather day. If you are a nature loving person then you would enjoy the greenery and beauty of plants, flowers, trees.

Boring, boring, and boring. We spent $135 dollars for combo guided garden tour and unguided museum…read moretour. I might have given the gardens 2 stars if it was sunny, but it was cloudy. Yet the gardens are very humdrum and huge. Tour was 2 hours. In beginning, I was so excited and you get earphones to listen to the commentary, and linger far from group to explore or take photos yet still hear the guide. Then you just noticed how green everything was. A lot of trees, bushes, and gravel paths. I think elderly people would love this place, but the gardens themselves were not enchanting, not many flowers. There were a lot of funky looking fountains and grottoes. They were no Bernini's that's for sure. This tour is not for young children or teens. They had the boredest expressions of all time. Even the Sistine Chapel would be a snooze fest for them so I don't know why there were thousands of European, mostly Spanish school children here hogging up the space. When I was in grade school or high school, we never went to any art galleries period and I grew up in Washington, DC, home of one huge spacious art museum, National Museum of Art. Our garden guide was good, but the place was just uninteresting. I went by all the fabulous 5 star ratings from TripAdvisor. Plus I highly doubt the Pope walks in that garden. Too far away from his living quarters and many steep hills, and he is elderly.Bring walking shoes for sure and don't bother with a jacket. It was only 60 degrees F and I was sweating endlessly because of all the walking and still wore light T-shirt. Then the tour ended and we started the tortuous 1.5 hours of seeking the Sistine Chapel, then getting the heck out of there. I have a gazillion photos which I will post later.

Loved visiting the Roseto Comunale!…read more If you're visiting the Colosseum or Palatine, the distance to the rose garden is walkable. I highly recommend coming here on a nice, sunny day. There are plenty of benches and seating area so you can relax after a long day of walking and enjoy the scenery. It's really a lovely sight! Also, entrance is free. :)

This is by far the most underwhelming botanical garden I have ever seen. I find the wild poppies…read moregrowing in the side of the highway between Rome and Naples more exciting. The park is poorly kept and just simply doesn't have anything exotic, exciting, or memorable. Sad. I was looking forward to taking some nice pics here. Not worth €8. It should be free. Gianicolo is free and much nicer.

Every place we have visited in Rome has been worth the effort. Most are simply fabulous. This was…read morethe only disappointment. My recommendation: This is not a secret garden to discover in Rome. It's a poorly maintained collection of very old trees (THEY are beautiful) and one flowerless rose garden planted in the shade. I've enjoyed some fabulous botanic gardens around the world. This would be a disappointment if it was a suburban Chicago park. Beyond the age of the plantings, there is nothing to offer the tourist here.

The Borghese Museum houses an unmatched collection of Italian baroque and renaissance masterpieces…read more Artworks by Bernini and Caravaggio are among their popular pieces and a whole lot more including sculptures. Not to miss pieces are Bernini's marble sculptures - Apollo & Daphne and The Rape of Proserpina. Canova's neoclassical Paolina Borghese as Venus Victrix and Carravaggio's painting - David with the Head of Goliath. We came in immediately after checking in to our hotel for a 4pm timed entry. Reservation is a must. Bought our tickets a month in advance back in 2023. This was still early on after covid so restrictions still apply. I love how we were able to savor every moment we spent here because it wasn't congested at all. From the outside, it was a beautiful building in a magnificent park. I would call this a hidden gem in Rome. Borghese museum is a must go to when in Rome. The time we spent was good enough. During that time, there weren't a lot of people as they control the number of people entering the museum. Definitely 5 thumbs up. August 2026

I didn't know that this museum is so popular and that you must purchase your tickets in advance…read more Luckily, I was able to purchase tickets before our trip to Rome, but they had only a limited number of tickets available for the time that we were going to be there. So if you are planning on going to Galleria Borghese, make sure to purchase your tickets in advance. We visited the Borghese in the afternoon during the week, and I think that was a great idea because it was pretty empty, and we had yet another chance to see everything with almost no one around. I'm not sure if it's always like that or if we got lucky. Either way, I was able to take my time to look at all the beautiful art pieces. Everything was so beautiful. I recommend going to this museum if you have the time; it's definitely worth it.

Great place to go when travelling by car to Tuscany. It can be an one hour deal or you may spend…read moremore time. the place is beautiful and the creatures really amaze. As Paola stated in her review, they should make their mind about the name: sometimes they call it monster park and other times sacred garden. Either way, it's cool. Easy to park, they have a bar and restaurant, but I suggest you bring food and drink to make a picnic, as there are so many nice spots under the trees. enjoy

I have visited this sacred forest of monsters twice. Once in late afternoon and once in the…read moremysterious, misty fog of sunrise. My entire architecture class fit in the eyes, nose, and mouth of one monster. Interesting photo. If you are on your way to Rome and you love the bizarre, this out-of-the-way trip is well worth the effort.