The Villa Borghese, at the northern end of Via Veneto, was founded at the beginning of the 17th century by Cardinal Scipione Borghese Caffarelli. The Cardinal was a great patron of the arts, and commissioned many of sculptures Bernini's most admired sculptures. We saw Bernini's most famous masterpieces "Apollo and Daphne", "Pluto and PersePhone" and "David" this morning after a short metro ride. We found the Metro today, much faster than the bus. There are no bags or cameras inside so you are free to wander with your audio guides. Alas Jacquie does not feel well so we headed back to our apartment and hope to go out tonight to see some of Marco's cousins south of the city.

This statue of David was amazing as well there was an exhibit of Raphael that was currently at the museum so we got to see this travelling show of masterpieces, this photo from the museum website. The sling-shot as he is just about to release to kill the giant is impressive.

Bye the way...we of course had to climb 150 stairs to the painting floor (Coco counts for us), and equal that to get out of the metro...lotsa, lotsa stairs in Rome!