Montserrat Monastery
Montserrat, Spain
The basilica is free to enter, and so is the walk up to it once you are on the mountain, so the choices are about…
24 tickets & tours
The whole catalogue
All 736 churches, cathedrals and monasteries
Every cathedral, basilica, church, chapel, monastery, shrine and crypt we cover, in 78 countries. Sorted by what there is to book: 385 of them sell a ticket or a tour online.
Cathedrals 246Basilicas 92Churches 194Chapels 28Monasteries & Abbeys 157Shrines & Sanctuaries 12Crypts & Ossuaries 7
Sacre-Coeur Basilica
Paris, France
The basilica is free to enter and there is rarely a queue of more than a few minutes, so nothing needs booking.
23 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
Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba
Cordoba, Spain
One ticket covers the whole building, and buying it online with a time slot saves a queue that is long from mid-morning…
22 tickets & tours
Boyana Church
Sofia, Bulgaria
The ticket is cheap and the rules are unusual: only eight people may be inside at a time and only for ten minutes, to…
17 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
Jeronimos Monastery
Lisbon, Portugal
The church of Santa Maria is free; the cloister is the ticket, and the two are entered by different doors, which…
17 tickets & tours
Basilica of Guadalupe
Mexico City, Mexico
Entry is free to everything on the hill: the modern basilica, the old baroque one, the chapels up the slope and the…
16 tickets & tours
Santiago de Compostela Cathedral
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
The church is free to enter and pilgrims walk straight in, so tickets here buy the parts that are managed separately.
16 tickets & tours
Toledo Cathedral
Toledo, Spain
The standard ticket covers the cathedral, the sacristy with its El Grecos, the treasury and the chapter house, and it…
15 tickets & tours
Palma Cathedral
Mallorca, Spain
One ticket covers the cathedral, the chapter house museum and the terraces below the rose window;
13 tickets & tours
Sainte-Chapelle
Paris, France
The chapel has a timed ticket and a security screening shared with the law courts, which means two lines: one to be…
13 tickets & tours
St Mary’s Basilica, Krakow
Krakow, Poland
There are two doors and two rules. The door from the square facing the Cloth Hall is for prayer and is free;
13 tickets & tours
Pisa Cathedral
Pisa, Italy
Everything on the Piazza dei Miracoli is sold through one office, and the pricing is unusual: the cathedral is free,…
12 tickets & tours
St Stephen’s Basilica
Budapest, Hungary
The basic ticket covers the church, and adding the dome and the treasury costs only a little more, which makes the…
12 tickets & tours
Bachkovo Monastery
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Bachkovo Monastery stands in the Rhodope Mountains, about thirty kilometres south of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, beside the…
11 tickets & tours
Rosslyn Chapel
Roslin, United Kingdom
There is one ticket, bought online for a timed slot, and it includes the short talks that the guides give in the chapel…
11 tickets & tours
Snagov Monastery
Bucharest, Romania
Snagov Monastery stands on an island in Lake Snagov, about forty kilometres north of Bucharest, Romania, and it is…
11 tickets & tours
Convent of Christ
Tomar, Portugal
One ticket covers the whole complex, castle walls included, and it is inexpensive;
10 tickets & tours
El Escorial
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
The state heritage service sells a single ticket for the Royal Site, which covers the basilica, the palace apartments,…
10 tickets & tours
Granada Cathedral
Granada, Spain
The cathedral and the Royal Chapel next door are separate buildings with separate tickets and separate queues, and most…
10 tickets & tours
Scrovegni Chapel
Padua, Italy
Entry is strictly controlled and cannot be improvised. Tickets are timed to the quarter hour, must be booked at least a…
10 tickets & tours
Church of Peace in Jawor
Wroclaw, Poland
Entry is a token sum paid at the door, and there is nothing else to buy;
9 tickets & tours
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