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
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Basilicas in Italy
Italy's basilicas start with St Peter's in Rome and St Mark's in Venice and continue through the Franciscan basilicas of Santa Croce in Florence and Saint Francis in Assisi, San Nicola in Bari with the relics of Saint Nicholas, Sant'Ambrogio in Milan and the Frari in Venice.
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St Mark’s Basilica
Venice, Italy
Entry to the basilica costs a few euros and the queue along the arcade can take an hour in season, which makes the…
69 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
Madonna di San Luca, Bologna
Bologna, Italy
The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca stands on the Colle della Guardia, a wooded hill about three hundred metres…
8 tickets & tours
Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi
Assisi, Italy
Entry is free, including the Upper Church, the Lower Church and the crypt, and there is no ticket office.
7 tickets & tours
Santa Croce
Florence, Italy
One ticket covers the church, the chapels, the cloisters, the Pazzi Chapel and the museum in the old refectory, and it…
7 tickets & tours
Basilica of Santa Rita of Cascia
Cascia, Italy
Entry is free. The monastery museum beside the basilica, the cell where Rita lived and the lower church are also free…
4 tickets & tours
Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Crown
Verona, Italy
The Sanctuary of the Madonna della Corona clings to a cliff face on the side of Monte Baldo, above the Adige valley,…
4 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
Basilica of Saint Clare
Assisi, Italy
Entry is free, as at the basilica of St Francis at the other end of the town.
3 tickets & tours
Basilica of Santa Croce, Lecce
Lecce, Italy
Santa Croce is the building that made Lecce famous and the one thing every visitor sees.
2 tickets & tours
Basilica di San Nicola
Bari, Italy
The basilica is free to enter and there is no ticket for the church or the crypt where the relics lie.
1 ticket or tour
Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua
Padua, Italy
The Basilica of Saint Anthony, known locally as Il Santo, stands on a square in the centre of Padua, northern Italy,…
1 ticket or tour
Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence
Florence, Italy
The basilica and the Old Sacristy are covered by one ticket, and the Laurentian Library, reached from the cloister, is…
1 ticket or tour
Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio
Milan, Italy
The church is free to enter; two things inside are ticketed and both are cheap.
1 ticket or tour
Basilica of Santa Cristina, Bolsena
Bolsena, Italy
The Basilica of Santa Cristina stands in the town of Bolsena, on the shores of Lake Bolsena, in northern Lazio, Italy,…
1 ticket or tour
Basilica of Superga
Turin, Italy
The Basilica of Superga stands on a hill about ten kilometres east of Turin, Italy, at a height of about 670 metres,…
1 ticket or tour
Frari Basilica
Venice, Italy
A modest ticket is bought at the door or online, and the Chorus Pass, which covers about fifteen Venetian churches…
1 ticket or tour
San Giorgio Maggiore
Venice, Italy
The church is free to enter; the campanile is the ticket and it is cheap.
1 ticket or tour
Santa Maria e San Donato
Venice, Italy
The Church of Santa Maria and San Donato stands on a canal in the centre of Murano, the island of glassmakers in the…
1 ticket or tour
Santa Maria Novella
Florence, Italy
One ticket covers the church, the Green Cloister, the Spanish Chapel and the museum rooms, and it is bought at a…
1 ticket or tour
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
Basilica of San Domenico, Siena
Siena, Italy
Entry is free with a donation box; there is no ticket and no guide service, and the church is not included in the…
No online ticket
Most are free to enter, with tickets for domes, museums, cloisters and terraces.