Today we went to the Borghese Villa.  The villa is in the middle of a beautiful park in the shape of a heart.  The Borghese Gallery is here and it is full of very impressive art.  Lots of great Bernini pieces; Apollo and Daphne, the Rape of Persephone, David and Goliath, Fall of Troy.

They had pieces by Raphael and Carvaggio as well.  There were a lot of statues in the gallery that had been restored (inaccurately) by combining found pieces of statues.  Heads that weren’t quite the right size or facing the right direction, etc.

We also saw a number of other notable pieces.  Venus on couch (Napoleon’s sister modeled for this statue), busts of the Medici (Bernini), and Titian’s Sacred and Profane.

We had our final dinner with the Rick Steve’s tour group.  We had a blast in Rome and the tour was really great.  They gave a lot of information and we saw a lot of sites!  It was pretty fast paced and the group that joined us was a fairly intellectual group so I thought it matched our style pretty well.  I would strongly recommend one of these tours of you like your trips a little bit nerdy.  After dinner, we ended up staying up pretty late just chatting with a few members of the group.