Place to see: Villa Borghese Gardens, Rome, Italy

Postcards about Villa Borghese Gardens:

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  14 June 2008
  From:
  Anne Beach

  A lovely cameo of a museum where you are not so overloaded by quantity that you can no longer see the quality. It is located on the grounds of the Villa Borghese, and makes a perfect part of a day which also may include hiking or biking in a verdant, natural setting. There are rotating exhibits. When we were there, we were privileged to be immersed in Raphael. I believe they limited the number of people who could enter, and then others were allowed only after the first guests left. This avoided the sense of sharing art with the masses.

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  13 June 2008
  From:
  Anne Beach

  I love the art and the history in Rome, but it was also overwhelming. Our feet and minds exhausted; we needed a time away from all the statuary and logistics and history, and just have a chance to take it in, to integrate it into who we were, to allow it to nurture our souls instead of our being in a frenzied overload. The Borghese Gardens are green and feel invigorating after the stress of travel. Rent a bike, walk the paths, rest, drink in the green, visit the cameo of a museum, the Galleria Borghese, return refreshed to Roma.

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  13 June 2008
  From:
  Anne Beach

  Borghese is a lovely setting and restaurant, so in the spirit of our hosts and budgets we ordered a pizza. Alas, when the waiter brought it, it was blackened pizza, definitely burned. We didn't say anything, not wanting to be"'Ugly Americans," but the waiter took one look at our chagrined faces, admitted it was charred fare and offered to get us another one. We hated to take the time, but we waited for the second one and had our real Italian pizza in this lovely verdant setting. Later, we went to the Galleria for an exhibit of Raphael.

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  13 June 2008
  From:
  Anne Beach

  We had a frustrating day in Rome, wasting three hours trying to get the Archeological Bus ( it kept being full), so we needed a break. The Borghese gardens were nurturing, and relaxing, and all the green was refreshing after all the statuary and the Coliseum (as much as I loved them). My daughter rented a bike, and they also had surrey type pedal carts for families. Once I sat down, I realized how exhausted I was, and it was just so easy to graudally flop over, and I slept on a park bench for the only time in my life.