Book a 30-minute slot on the gallery's own site and arrive on time; latecomers can be refused. No Metro stop is close: walk from the Pantheon or Trevi, or take bus 64 from Termini to Piazza Venezia.
Galleria Doria Pamphilj (2026): €16 Tickets, Hours, the Velázquez Innocent X and the Caravaggios (2026)
One of Rome's great private art collections, still in the family's palace on Via del Corso: Velázquez's Innocent X, three Caravaggios, Raphael and Titian. The €16 ticket (€17 online) with a free audio guide, the Wednesday closing, the bag and photo rules, and three free sights nearby.
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome Velázquez, Caravaggio and a palace that's still a home
The Galleria Doria Pamphilj is one of the great private art collections of Rome, still owned by the family and hung in their palace on Via del Corso, a few steps from Piazza Venezia. The pictures fill the four wings of a gallery built around a courtyard, still arranged as they were in the late 18th century, so it feels more like walking through a prince's house than a museum. Its masterpiece is Velázquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X Pamphilj, painted in 1650, and there are three Caravaggios, a Raphael, a Titian and a roomful of landscapes by Claude Lorrain.
Tickets are €16 at the door or €17 online, the audio guide is included, and it's closed on Wednesdays. After the gallery, three free stops are within five minutes' walk: Andrea Pozzo's painted dome at Sant'Ignazio, the Dominican church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva and Bernini's elephant outside it. The Pantheon is about five minutes west and the Trevi Fountain about five minutes north. For the rest of the city, see things to do in Rome.
Galleria Doria Pamphilj
The short version. Book a slot on the gallery's own site (€17; €16 if you buy at the door), don't come on a Wednesday, and leave the backpack at your hotel: there's no cloakroom. The audio guide is free. Allow about an hour and a half; the gallery sets no time limit.
The Velázquez. The collection's masterpiece hangs in its own small room, the Gabinetto di Velázquez: Diego Velázquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X Pamphilj, painted in 1650. The gallery's own account says the pope called it troppo vero, 'too true'. In the same room is one of two marble busts of the pope by Gian Lorenzo Bernini; a third bust of him, in porphyry and bronze by Alessandro Algardi, is in the Third Wing.
The Caravaggios. The gallery has three. Two are on its list of masterpieces, both from around 1597, early in Caravaggio's time in Rome, and both bought by Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj in 1650: the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, with an angel seen from behind playing the violin while St Joseph holds the score, and the Penitent Magdalene, for which the gallery says Caravaggio seems to have used the same model as his Madonna. The third is a Saint John the Baptist. The list also includes Raphael's Double Portrait, Titian's Salome with the Head of the Baptist, Annibale Carracci's Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, a Filippo Lippi Annunciation, a Parmigianino Nativity, Guercino, Guido Reni, Lorenzo Lotto's self-portrait and Hans Memling.
The four wings. The pictures hang in the four wings (bracci) of the gallery around the courtyard, built in their present form for Prince Camillo Pamphilj between 1731 and 1734, and arranged as an inventory of 1767 records. The First Wing has Annibale Carracci's Aldobrandini lunettes, four canvases by Claude Lorrain and Reni's Fight of Putti. The Second Wing is the Hall of Mirrors (Galleria degli Specchi), with Aureliano Milani's ceiling of the Labours of Hercules (1731-34), mirrors brought from Venice and ancient statues. The Third Wing has Correggio, another Lorrain and Pieter Bruegel the Elder's view of the port of Naples, a rare trace of his time in Italy. The Fourth Wing opens with Algardi's marble bust of Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj, followed by Parmigianino, Ribera and Jan Brueghel the Elder.
Sant'Ignazio di Loyola
Sant'Ignazio di Loyola, three minutes' walk from the gallery, is the Jesuits' great baroque church, and the reason to go is a trick of paint. The Jesuit painter Andrea Pozzo painted the dome: it's a false one, painted architecture in perspective that looks like a real cupola. On the nave vault, his fresco of the glory of St Ignatius opens up into what the church calls 'the sensation of infinite space'. Pozzo also painted the presbytery and apse (1685-1701), where an apse that looks polygonal is in fact concave.
Hours: every day 9am to 11.30pm, with no midday closing. Mass: daily at 6.30pm, and at 11.30am on Sundays and holidays. Cost: free; the church warns that some agencies and guides charge for entry, and that it receives no payment from them. Guided visits are offered by the volunteers of Pietre Vive. The catch: it's an illusion built for the nave, so walk up the middle of the church rather than round the sides.
About three minutes' walk from the gallery. Guided visits are offered by Pietre Vive volunteers.
Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Santa Maria sopra Minerva, five minutes west on the square behind the Pantheon, is the Dominicans' church and the sanctuary of St Catherine of Siena, whose remains lie here; she was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1970. It also holds the remains of the painter Fra Angelico, declared the patron of artists in 1984.
Hours: restoration work has put the basilica on temporary hours: Monday to Friday 4pm to 7.30pm only; Saturday and Sunday 10.30am to 1pm and 2pm to 7.30pm. Mass: weekdays at 6pm, Sundays and holidays at 11am and 6pm. Cost: no admission charge is listed. The catch: on weekdays it's shut until 4pm while the works last, so see the gallery first and come here late in the afternoon.
About five minutes' walk west of the gallery, and a minute from the Pantheon. A working Dominican church: cover shoulders and knees.
Bernini's Elephant and Obelisk (Pulcino della Minerva)
Outside the church stands Bernini's elephant, carrying a small Egyptian obelisk of red granite from around the 6th century BC, found in 1665 by Dominican friars digging the foundations of their garden wall. Pope Alexander VII chose Bernini's design over others, and his pupil Ercole Ferrata carved the elephant in 1667. The friars insisted the elephant would buckle under the obelisk without a support in its middle; the pope sided with them against Bernini, and the covering added over the support made the elephant look squat. Romans nicknamed it the porcino ('little pig'), which became Pulcino della Minerva ('the Minerva chick').
Cost: free, any time. Time: five minutes. It was unveiled on 11 July 1667; the pope had died that May and never saw it.
In the square in front of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, a minute from the Pantheon.
Galleria Doria Pamphilj ticket prices, and who goes free
Full price: €16 at the ticket office, or €17 booked online.
Free: children under 12 (with a valid ID; €1 if you book them online), and visitors with an Italian or EU Disability Card or documentation of a disability above 67%. Also free: the leader of a group of at least 12, and licensed guides leading a group. Groups book by emailing info@dopart.it.
Included: the audio guide, in Italian, English, French and Spanish, while supplies last. A short printed guide (Guida Breve) is sold separately in the bookshop on the main floor.
Not included: the Secret Apartments on the ground floor (below), which need a separate ticket.
It's private: the gallery belongs to the family, not the state, so the Ministry of Culture's free first Sundays don't apply here.
Booking, hours and the no-refund rule
Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 9am to 7pm (last entry 6pm); Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am to 8pm (last entry 7pm). Closed every Wednesday, and on 1 January, Easter and 25 December. The ticket office (Monday to Thursday from 9am, Friday to Sunday from 10am) stops selling an hour before closing.
Book online on the gallery's own ticket site (ticketroma.doriapamphilj.it) in 30-minute slots. The gallery recommends it: without a booking it can't guarantee entry. With an online ticket you skip the ticket office and go straight to the gallery entrance on the first floor of the palace. Arrive at the time on your confirmation email; latecomers can be refused.
No refunds, cancellations or changes, for any reason, including arriving late. The gallery doesn't guarantee or answer for tickets bought through any other seller.
Bags, photos and what to wear
Bags: only small bags. Large bags, backpacks and luggage are strictly not allowed, and there's no cloakroom, so leave them at your hotel or a luggage store nearby. There's no lift for visitors; the gallery asks anyone who needs an easier visit to email info@dopart.it in advance.
Photos: allowed for personal use, without flash. Short clips of up to 10 seconds are allowed for personal use. Selfie sticks aren't allowed; video cameras, tripods and professional kit need the gallery's permission; and the rules forbid publishing your photos or clips. No food or drink in the rooms.
Dress: the rules ask for clothing suited to the rooms and rule out swimwear, very revealing clothes, wedding or ceremony outfits and historical costumes.
The private apartments and the Secret Apartments
The private apartments. The palace has been the family's home since the 17th century, and the apartments on the piano nobile are still lived in by the descendants of the Doria Pamphilj. The gallery's site describes six of these rooms, from the Throne Room (Sala del Trono) and the Blue Room to the Toletta di Venere, decorated over the centuries to each prince's taste, and it says the collection hangs in the state rooms, the four wings and the private apartments. It doesn't say which private rooms are on the standard route, so ask when you book if they matter to you. Also in the palace is the family chapel, designed by Carlo Fontana in 1689-91, where family ceremonies are still held.
The Secret Apartments (Appartamenti Segreti). These ground-floor rooms are not included in the gallery ticket: they're run by the Trust Floridi Doria Pamphilj and sold separately through Midaticket. The route is themed on the four elements and includes the Bath of Diana, a Pompeian-style bathroom and alcove that Prince Filippo Andrea commissioned in 1840 as a gift for his wife, Mary Talbot. The ticket also covers the Ospitale Santa Francesca Romana in Trastevere. Price: not published on its pages. Times: the Trust's site says its listed times may change, so check them when you book. Contact: info.rm@trustfdp.it, or WhatsApp +39 333 1522660.
Getting there
The entrance is at Via del Corso 305, a few metres from Piazza Venezia. On foot: from the Pantheon, take Via della Minerva and Via del Piè di Marmo to Piazza del Collegio Romano (about five minutes); from the Trevi Fountain, follow Via delle Muratte to Via del Corso and turn left, towards Piazza Venezia, for 300 metres.
By bus: the 64 from Termini, seven stops to Piazza Venezia, then 100 metres up Via del Corso. By Metro (subway): no station is close. From Barberini (Line A), take bus 95, 175, 492, 62 or 630 from Via del Tritone to the Via del Corso/Via Minghetti stop; from Colosseo (Line B), take bus 85 or 850 to Via del Corso at Via dei SS. Apostoli. See getting around Rome for tickets.
It fits a historic-centre day with the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain and Piazza Navona, and there's a café inside the palace. To price the rest of your trip, see our Rome trip-cost guide, and for a base nearby, where to stay in Rome.
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