Sistine Chapel
Rome, Italy
There is no ticket to the Sistine Chapel on its own. The chapel sits at the far end of the Vatican Museums, and every…
241 tickets & tours
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Best churches to visit in Rome
Rome has the most visited church interiors in the world and hundreds of churches that almost nobody books. The famous pair sits inside the Vatican: St Peter’s Basilica, free to enter with a separate ticket for the dome, and the Sistine Chapel, which is only seen as part of the Vatican Museums visit. The Capuchin Crypt on Via Veneto adds its chapels of bones.
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St Peter’s Basilica
Rome, Italy
Entry to the basilica itself is free, which surprises many visitors, so what you pay for is either speed or access to…
154 tickets & tours
San Clemente
Rome, Italy
The upper church is free. The ticket, bought at a desk in the sacristy, is for the excavations below and is…
23 tickets & tours
Santa Maria Maggiore
Rome, Italy
Santa Maria Maggiore is free to enter and stands five minutes from Termini station, so the question is never access but…
23 tickets & tours
Capuchin Crypt
Rome, Italy
A single modest ticket covers the museum of the Capuchin order and the crypt beneath it, and the route runs one way…
17 tickets & tours
Archbasilica of St John Lateran
Rome, Italy
The basilica is free to enter. Three neighbouring things are ticketed and cheap: the cloister, with its twisted inlaid…
3 tickets & tours
Santo Stefano Rotondo
Rome, Italy
Entry is free and there is no ticket office; the church is served by the Hungarian college that owns it and keeps…
1 ticket or tour
San Luigi dei Francesi
Rome, Italy
San Luigi is free, stands two minutes from Piazza Navona and holds three Caravaggios in the chapel they were painted…
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San Sebastiano fuori le mura
Rome, Italy
The basilica is free to enter. The catacombs beneath it are visited only on a guided tour, which runs continuously in…
No online ticket
Sant’Ignazio, Rome
Rome, Italy
Sant'Ignazio is free, open through the day and five minutes from the Pantheon, which makes it one of the easiest…
No online ticket
Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Rome, Italy
Santa Croce stands at the eastern edge of central Rome, about ten minutes on foot from San Giovanni in Laterano along a…
No online ticket
Santa Maria del Popolo
Rome, Italy
The church stands beside the northern gate of Rome, on the Piazza del Popolo, and it is free to enter, which makes it…
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Santa Maria in Palmis
Rome, Italy
The church stands where the Appian Way proper begins, about eight hundred metres beyond the old gate in the Aurelian…
No online ticket
Santa Maria in Trastevere
Rome, Italy
Santa Maria in Trastevere stands on the piazza of the same name, the heart of the lively Trastevere district across the…
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Beyond the Vatican, the papal basilicas of St John Lateran, Santa Maria Maggiore and San Paolo, the layered excavations under San Clemente, the Caravaggios in San Luigi dei Francesi and Santa Maria del Popolo, and the mosaics of Santa Maria in Trastevere are all free or nearly so. Cover shoulders and knees, and expect many churches to close for a long lunch.