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Vatican Gardens


TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #158 of 548 attractions in Rome
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Attraction type: Garden
Address: North and west of the Vatican Rome
Italy

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5 of 5 stars
redmen66   5 contributions
Arnold, Maryland
Nov 1, 2009

If you have taken a tour all ready of the Vatican Museum, the vatican gardens gives you views of St Peter's you can't get any where else. You can only go through the gardens on a tour. Beautiful statues and fountains. There is a replica of the Lady of Lourdes memorial including the original altar. The tour includes the admission... more

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1 of 5 stars
BrookeSara   65 contributions
North Miami Beach, Florida
Mar 5, 2009
1/2 found this review helpful

I like to form my own opinion and see things with my own eyes. This one time I wish I had passed on the vatican gardens tour. I had visions of beautiful gardens with nuns and priests walking around the gardens, of statues and charming little buildings. There was very little of that. We were ushered through driveways for two... more

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5 of 5 stars
MyMuse   99 contributions
Passaic, New Jersey
Aug 24, 2008

The only way to see the Gardens is through the Vatican itself, there are no private tours allowed. It was just our group and the Gardens. Our tour guide was Alexandra, we go through the turnstiles at the Museum and then enter the Garden through a side entrance. We showed our tickets (and they were checked) as you are actually... more

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1 of 5 stars
RTravel   17 contributions
Las Cruces, NM
Mar 30, 2005
20/28 found this review helpful

Visited the Gardens with a tour guide arranged through the Vatican in spring of 2002 - the tour was supposed to be in English....but ended up mostily in Italian. She would speak for a long time in Italian, then we would get a one or two sentences in English. There was one person who monopolized the attention of the guide,... more

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North and west of the Vatican, Rome, Italy