Food and Drinks
in Villa Borghese Gardens
You will find several cafés and restaurants in the gardens, including those at one of the museums. An outdoor café-bar is just beyond the children’s carousel on the high plateau that opens onto the main garden grounds. For a fine-dining experience, the former guesthouse of the Villa Medici is also just opposite the carousel.
Snack kiosks can be found near more people-populated areas within the park, especially when there is some event happening. These kiosks are not you usual snack carts. They offer freshly made sandwiches, cold or hot pizza, sweet & salty snacks, ice cream, and an assortment of drinks (including cold beer and wine).
Outside Villa Borghese Gardens
Once you get into the park, you might not want to leave. Nevertheless, Rome is any tourist’s vision of heaven, especially when the Vatican is so close by. And what you’ll find near Villa Borghese are the Spanish Steps, 
atop which stands the Trinita del Monti church. Likewise, you overlook the Piazza del Popolo, famous for its Baroque architecture, arched entranceways, and a fine little museum at the foot of the stairs leading from Borghese Gardens.
As I like to describe Rome as a walking city—more easily walkable to tourist sites than most European cities, I think—you’re never too far from one site to the next. For a full list of Rome’s famous sites, and hotels, hostels, restaurants, and nightlife, jump to the Rome city page.
Directions to Villa Borghese Gardens
The metro Red Line has stops at “Spagna” (the Spanish Steps) and “Flaminio,” just north of the Piaza del Popolo. Spagna is a block from the Spanish Steps, up which you’ll need to walk, turn left, and another block up the hill to the gardens. Flaminio is across the street from the southwest entrance to Villa Borghese.
The park begins at the top of a high hill, and so is not easily accessible for the disable. Once you’re in the park, there is no problem for wheelchairs and motorized carts to get around. The best advise I can give is to take a short taxi ride up the hill from the foot of the Spanish Steps, or outside either metro stop exit.
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