The Pincio terrace
Overlooking Piazza del Popolo and St Peter's dome โ Rome's most famous free sunset, known to locals before visitors.
user:Lalupa โ Public domain ยท Krzysztof Golik โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Sjaak Kempe from Groningen, The Netherlands โ CC BY 2.0 ยท Sjaak Kempe from Groningen, The Netherlands โ CC BY 2.0
Hire a bike or electric cart at a gate (by the hour) to cover ground, or walk one line: Pincio โ the lake โ the Galleria. Crossing the whole park on foot takes over an hour.
Among Rome's best options with children: a zoo, boats, a traditional puppet theatre on the Pincio, and safe car-free space to run โ a necessary break after two days of ruins.
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Rome's most famous and most varied park: eighty hectares of shaded avenues, small lakes and classical temples, laid out by Cardinal Scipione Borghese in the seventeenth century as a private garden and later opened as the city's lung. What sets it apart is that it isn't only for walking: inside are the Galleria Borghese (one of Rome's greatest museums), a zoo, an open-air Shakespeare theatre, a lake with rowing boats beside the little Temple of Asclepius, and bikes and electric carts for hire at the gates. Its great practical asset: the Pincio terrace at the southwest edge looks straight down over Piazza del Popolo and across Rome's rooftops to St Peter's dome โ the city's best free sunset, and only five minutes from the top of the Spanish Steps. Combine the two at the end of a day.
Overlooking Piazza del Popolo and St Peter's dome โ Rome's most famous free sunset, known to locals before visitors.
Little rowing boats circling a neoclassical temple mid-water โ the calmest twenty minutes money can buy in Rome.
Inside the park: Bernini's sculptures and Caravaggio's paintings in one villa โ requires a compulsory timed booking.
Villa Borghese gardens, Rome