Villa Borghese is possibly the most famous and busy public park of Rome, not only because of its closeness to Piazza di Spagna, Piazza del Popolo and other important locations of the city centre. It is a lung for the city: 80 hectares of Italian gardens, buildings, numerous fountains and beautiful small lakes.

Its main entrance faces onto Piazzale Flaminio, but you can also enter from Trinità dei Monti and other seven entrances. The villa after which the park is named is known as Villa Borghese Pinciana and it is currently seat to the Galleria Borghese, a gallery that hosts precious works of art like David by Bernini or paintings by Raphael and Caravaggio.

Inside the villa there is also the Rome zoo, recently renamed as Biopark, as well as the Civic Museum of Biology. The area also includes the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre, reconstruction of the Shakespearian Globe, the Casa del Cinema, the beautiful Casino di Raffaello, the Aranciera, the Uccelliera and the Museo Pietro Canonica alla Fortezzuola, a museum that hosts the homonymous artist’s works of art. Also, there are monuments like the hydrocronometer, the Minerva temple, the Arch of Septimius Severus and the Fountain of the Sea Horses.

Villa Borghese is divided into 6 gardens: the suggestive Garden of the Lake with the temple to Esculapio, the Gardens of Villa Giulia, the Park of the Fallow Deers, the Valley of the Plane Trees, the Garden of Piazzale Scipione and the Secret Gardens.

Inside the next Villa Giulia there is the Etruscan Museum.