SELF-GUIDED WALK · Our signature walk
A Self-Guided Walk Among the Pincio Busts
Meet Leonardo, Dante and Bernini on an unhurried walk among the busts. Finish with Rome spread out below you.
The dotted line shows the order of stops, not a navigable path. Open walking directions at each stop.
Walk stops, in order
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Along the way
Mostly gentle garden paths, with uneven paving and gravel in places.
Look at the inscriptions as well as the faces. Several busts share an approximate map position: use the photographs to identify them.
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Bust · Pincio gardens
Leonardo da Vinci
A painter who used drawing to investigate anatomy, moving water, and the mechanics of sight. His Roman years came late in his career.
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Bust · Pincio gardens
Raphael
Raphael organized figures, architecture, and gesture into paintings whose apparent ease rests on careful design and collaboration.
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Bust · Pincio gardens
Dante Alighieri
An exiled Florentine who made the afterlife a setting for arguments about language, power, love, and justice.
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Bust · Pincio gardens
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Bernini’s Borghese sculptures make action depend on the viewer’s position, turning carved stone into a sequence of discoveries.
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Bust · Pincio gardens
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Garibaldi led volunteer armies in South America and Italy, including the 1860 campaign that overthrew Bourbon rule in the south.
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Viewpoint · Pincio gardens
Pincio Terrace
A public belvedere above Piazza del Popolo, connected to gardens filled with commemorative portraits.
