How to get from the Sistine Chapel to Borghese Gallery
Aug 15th, 2015, 08:52 AM
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How many people?
If two or more I would just grab a cab.
Exit from the Sistine Chapel into St Peter's - as opposed to walking all the way back through the Vatican Museum - and when you leave St Peter's Piazza there should be taxis available.
You can certainly walk but it's a fair distance and quite a bit is uphill.
If two or more I would just grab a cab.
Exit from the Sistine Chapel into St Peter's - as opposed to walking all the way back through the Vatican Museum - and when you leave St Peter's Piazza there should be taxis available.
You can certainly walk but it's a fair distance and quite a bit is uphill.
Aug 15th, 2015, 08:55 AM
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To expand on Nochblad's enigmatic question, Google maps is a very good resource for finding your way around Rome by public transportation. Click on the bus icon, then choose a date (in the next week), and a time of day, that match your intended travel time.
Aug 15th, 2015, 09:27 AM
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You can take the Metro Line A from
Ottaviano or Cipro to Flaminio @ Santa Maria del Popolo.
There is a staircase behind the church that you can walk up to the Pincio. It is just short walk through the park to the museum.
I love to walk through the Borghese Gardens.
Another great museum in the grounds of the Borghese Gardens is the Villa Giulia.
Keith and I once stayed at the BW Spring House Hotel just across the road (and down a flight of steps) from the entrance to the Vatican
Museum.
Thin
Ottaviano or Cipro to Flaminio @ Santa Maria del Popolo.
There is a staircase behind the church that you can walk up to the Pincio. It is just short walk through the park to the museum.
I love to walk through the Borghese Gardens.
Another great museum in the grounds of the Borghese Gardens is the Villa Giulia.
Keith and I once stayed at the BW Spring House Hotel just across the road (and down a flight of steps) from the entrance to the Vatican
Museum.
Thin
Aug 15th, 2015, 01:53 PM
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I find Google bus info is often wrong.
You can get close to Galleria Borghese by catching tram #19 by the Metro A Ottaviano entrance. Get off at either the Galleria Arte Moderna, Aldrovandi or Bioparco stops. All are at the park in the upper half. The Galleria Arte Moderna would require a bit of a an uphill walk to reach the Borghese, Aldrovandi would be pretty much even across and the Bioparco would be a short downhill walk.
http://atac.roma.it/files/doc.asp?r=5
You can get close to Galleria Borghese by catching tram #19 by the Metro A Ottaviano entrance. Get off at either the Galleria Arte Moderna, Aldrovandi or Bioparco stops. All are at the park in the upper half. The Galleria Arte Moderna would require a bit of a an uphill walk to reach the Borghese, Aldrovandi would be pretty much even across and the Bioparco would be a short downhill walk.
http://atac.roma.it/files/doc.asp?r=5
Aug 15th, 2015, 02:39 PM
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Try this method, Lynny. You might like it.
Question: Doesn't anyone take the fun cheapo ride on the little chug-chug boats that ply the Tevere (Tiber)? I've always found this to be a delightful way to go, and for a few Euros you can hop on and off all day long.
I imagine they're still sailing, as my wife and I always enjoyed (as recently as 2008) this simple, pleasant, method of travel around Roma.
Walk just a few blocks from St. Peters to Castel San Angelo (boat stop, on one side of the bridge or the other), ride three stops to Ponte Margherita (Piazza del Popolo) and walk to Borghese or take a very short taxi ride. You can get to almost any site or district on the river this way...
Stu Tower (schedules are found at each stop)
Question: Doesn't anyone take the fun cheapo ride on the little chug-chug boats that ply the Tevere (Tiber)? I've always found this to be a delightful way to go, and for a few Euros you can hop on and off all day long.
I imagine they're still sailing, as my wife and I always enjoyed (as recently as 2008) this simple, pleasant, method of travel around Roma.
Walk just a few blocks from St. Peters to Castel San Angelo (boat stop, on one side of the bridge or the other), ride three stops to Ponte Margherita (Piazza del Popolo) and walk to Borghese or take a very short taxi ride. You can get to almost any site or district on the river this way...
Stu Tower (schedules are found at each stop)
Aug 15th, 2015, 03:04 PM
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I don't think those boats run any more and for me, it would be like taking a cruise along a stormwater channel - which is basically what the Tiber is, with those giant concrete embankments encasing it.
OP - I've walked from St. Peter's to the Borghese Gardens but only because I had lots of time and it wasn't hot. I would take a taxi.
OP - I've walked from St. Peter's to the Borghese Gardens but only because I had lots of time and it wasn't hot. I would take a taxi.
Aug 15th, 2015, 03:48 PM
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Tram #19 stop Aldrovandi? -- How do you enter the Borghese Park from that side? I didn't think there was any direct entrance to the park from around that area.
Is the Electric bus #116 to Borghese running this year? I read earlier this year that the electric buses might not be running this year due to budget cut.
Is the Electric bus #116 to Borghese running this year? I read earlier this year that the electric buses might not be running this year due to budget cut.
Aug 17th, 2015, 04:47 AM
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>>>Tram #19 stop Aldrovandi? -- How do you enter the Borghese Park from that side? I didn't think there was any direct entrance to the park from around that area.<<<
The stops are odd depending on tram direction. You would have to skirt the Bioparco.
The easiest stop is the Bioparco because it's closest to the Borghese and the walk is downhill. Pulling stops up on Google maps can be a bit confusing because tram #3 also runs part of this route by the park and has stops perhaps named differently. Here's the route map for #19. You have to zoom in a couple of times (or the stops don't appear very accurate).
http://viaggiacon.atac.roma.it/?serv...9&percorso=19A
>>>Is the Electric bus #116 to Borghese running this year? I read earlier this year that the electric buses might not be running this year due to budget cut.<<<
Evidently not as ATAC is no longer showing route maps for the 116 or 117. I've always used those quite a bit since they crisscrossed the historic center and were allowed where regular buses weren't.
>>>Question: Doesn't anyone take the fun cheapo ride on the little chug-chug boats that ply the Tevere (Tiber)? I've always found this to be a delightful way to go, and for a few Euros you can hop on and off all day long.<<<
They haven't existed for several years. Last I looked, the only cruise still operating was one to Ostia Antica (more of a day trip thing).
The stops are odd depending on tram direction. You would have to skirt the Bioparco.
The easiest stop is the Bioparco because it's closest to the Borghese and the walk is downhill. Pulling stops up on Google maps can be a bit confusing because tram #3 also runs part of this route by the park and has stops perhaps named differently. Here's the route map for #19. You have to zoom in a couple of times (or the stops don't appear very accurate).
http://viaggiacon.atac.roma.it/?serv...9&percorso=19A
>>>Is the Electric bus #116 to Borghese running this year? I read earlier this year that the electric buses might not be running this year due to budget cut.<<<
Evidently not as ATAC is no longer showing route maps for the 116 or 117. I've always used those quite a bit since they crisscrossed the historic center and were allowed where regular buses weren't.
>>>Question: Doesn't anyone take the fun cheapo ride on the little chug-chug boats that ply the Tevere (Tiber)? I've always found this to be a delightful way to go, and for a few Euros you can hop on and off all day long.<<<
They haven't existed for several years. Last I looked, the only cruise still operating was one to Ostia Antica (more of a day trip thing).
