Which one to choose in Milan
Two churches in Milan. Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio has 1 ticket or tour to book; Milan Cathedral has 61 tickets and tours to book. The table and the two notes below put them side by side; the full pages have what to see, the ticket and the timing for each.
Milan, Italy
The church is free to enter; two things inside are ticketed and both are cheap. The treasury and the crypt, where the skeletons of Ambrose and the martyrs Gervasius and Protasius lie dressed in vestments in a glass case, are entered from the right aisle. The Sacello di San Vittore in Ciel d'Oro, a fourth-century chapel with a gold mosaic vault and the earliest surviving portrait of Ambrose, has its own small charge and is the finest thing in the building.
Milan, Italy
Tickets here are modular and the choice matters more than at most cathedrals. The cheapest covers only the church. The one almost everyone should buy adds the roof terraces, and it comes in two versions: stairs, about 250 steps, or lift, which costs a few euros more and skips them. Both put you on the same walkways among the spires. A fuller pass adds the cathedral museum in the Palazzo Reale and the archaeological area under the nave, where the fourth-century baptistery in which Ambrose baptised Augustine survives.
| Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio | Milan Cathedral | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Basilica | Cathedral |
| Height | — | 108.5 m |
| Opened | 300 | 1386 |
| Tickets and tours on GetYourGuide | 1 | 61 |
| Official website | yes | yes |