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Best chapels to visit worldwide

A chapel can be a room inside a palace, a burial place built for a dynasty or a tiny building on a hillside, and some of the most famous art in Europe is painted on chapel walls. The Sistine Chapel is seen only as part of the Vatican Museums ticket; the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris is a glass box of thirteenth-century stained glass; Giotto’s Scrovegni Chapel in Padua admits small groups for a short, timed visit; the Palatine Chapel in Palermo sits inside the Norman Palace; the Royal Chapel of Granada holds the tombs of Ferdinand and Isabella; and the Medici Chapels in Florence hold Michelangelo’s sculptures.

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

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

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

Palatine Chapel

Palermo, Italy

The chapel is inside the Norman Palace, which is also the Sicilian regional parliament, so the ticket covers the palace…

6 tickets & tours

Royal Chapel of Granada

Granada, Spain

The chapel has its own cheap ticket, separate from the cathedral it adjoins, and the two are usually bought together…

6 tickets & tours

Medici Chapels

Florence, Italy

The ticket covers both chapels attached to San Lorenzo: the Chapel of the Princes, a vast domed octagon lined in…

4 tickets & tours

Mirror Chapel, Clementinum

Prague, Czech Republic

The Mirror Chapel is part of the Clementinum, a vast baroque complex in Prague's Old Town, near the Charles…

2 tickets & tours

Astrid Chapel

Lucerne, Switzerland

The Astrid Chapel stands on the shore of Lake Lucerne at Küssnacht am Rigi, in the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland, about…

1 ticket or tour

Chapel of the Holy Shroud

Turin, Italy

The chapel is entered through the Royal Museums of Turin and is covered by their ticket, which also includes the Royal…

1 ticket or tour

Church of Colònia Güell

Barcelona, Spain

The Crypt of Colònia Güell stands in the industrial colony of Colònia Güell, in Santa Coloma de Cervelló, about twenty…

1 ticket or tour

King’s College Chapel

Cambridge, United Kingdom

The chapel is entered on a college ticket that also covers the front court and the grounds down to the river;

1 ticket or tour

Padua Baptistery

Padua, Italy

The Baptistery of Padua stands beside Padua Cathedral on the Piazza del Duomo in the centre of Padua, in the Veneto…

1 ticket or tour

Sanctuary of Peninha

Sintra, Portugal

There is no ticket and no opening hours: the sanctuary stands on an open hilltop in the Sintra-Cascais natural park and…

1 ticket or tour

Alto Vista Chapel

Noord, Aruba

Entry is free and the chapel is never locked; there is no ticket, no guide and no shop.

No online ticket

Baglioni Chapel

Spello, Italy

The chapel is inside the collegiate church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Spello and is entered free with the rest of the…

No online ticket

Baptistery of Neon

Ravenna, Italy

The baptistery is one of the five monuments on the Ravenna combined ticket, with San Vitale, Galla Placidia,…

No online ticket

Chapel of São Miguel

Coimbra, Portugal

The chapel belongs to the University of Coimbra and is entered on the university ticket, which also covers the great…

No online ticket

Chapel of the Holy Cross

Sedona, United States

The chapel is four miles south of Sedona, off the main highway, and entry is free with a donation box inside.

No online ticket

Chapel of the Milk Grotto

Bethlehem, Palestine

The grotto is five minutes on foot from the Church of the Nativity, down a lane at the eastern edge of the old town of…

No online ticket

Chapel of the Shepherds’ Field

Beit Sahour, Palestine

The chapel stands in Beit Sahour, a village immediately south-east of Bethlehem, ten minutes by car from Manger Square.

No online ticket

Holy Chapel of the Savior

Ubeda, Spain

The Holy Chapel of the Saviour stands on the Plaza Vazquez de Molina in Ubeda, in the province of Jaen in Andalusia,…

No online ticket

Italian Chapel

Orkney, United Kingdom

The Italian Chapel stands alone on the small island of Lamb Holm, connected to the Orkney mainland by the causeways…

No online ticket

King’s Chapel

Boston, United States

King's Chapel stands at the corner of Tremont Street and School Street in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, and it…

No online ticket

Chapels are small, so the booking question is sharper than for a cathedral: slots sell out, visits are short and the ticket is often shared with a larger museum or palace. Each page says which ticket actually includes the chapel, how long you get inside, and when the crowds thin out.