Italy
Italy city cards: frequently asked questions
The Colosseum, Botticelli's Venus and the Doge's Palace each come with a card, just never the same one.
No card covers the whole of Italy: each city has its own, from the Roma Pass to the VeronaCard, and the main ones in Rome, Milan and Verona include the city's metro or buses as well as the museums. Under-18s go into Italy's state museums free, including the Colosseum, the Uffizi and Pompeii, card or no card.
Rome city passes: Roma Pass, Omnia and the rest
The Roma Pass is the city of Rome’s own card, the one with the Colosseum and the metro. The other three are where the Vatican Museums come in.
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Roma Pass
The Colosseum, the Borghese or another of Rome's sites as an included entry, one in 48 hours or two in 72, with the metro, buses and trams
from €44.90
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Omnia Card 24h
The Vatican Museums at a time you book as you buy, and a day on the hop-on hop-off bus
from €70
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Rome Tourist Card
The Vatican Museums or Castel Sant'Angelo, then the Colosseum, then St Peter's with a guide or the dome, or the Pantheon, all on your dates
from €89
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Vatican City Pass
The Vatican Museums, St Peter's with an audio guide, a guided visit or the dome, and Castel Sant'Angelo, Santa Maria Maggiore or an audio guide app
from €64
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Two more are on our Roma Pass and Rome’s city passes page, set against these four: the Turbopass, which books your Colosseum and Vatican times for you, and Go City, where you pick 2 to 7 attractions from a list.
Florence museum passes: the Firenze Card or an Uffizi pass
For three days of museums, the Firenze Card is the one to buy: the Uffizi, the Accademia and Palazzo Pitti are all on its list of 60 or so museums. If your list is only a few galleries, one of the Uffizi’s passes is enough.
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Firenze Card
About 60 museums, churches and gardens, once each, in the 72 hours after the first one
from €94
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Uffizi, Pitti and Boboli 5-Day Pass
The Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens, one entry each over five days in a row
from €45
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Uffizi and Accademia Combo
The Uffizi and the Accademia in one booking, with a guided tour or an audio guide to choose at each
from €69.50
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Venice passes: the Museum Pass, Venezia Unica and St Mark’s
Every Venice pass opens the Doge’s Palace, and they differ in what else comes with it. The Venice Museum Pass adds the city’s civic museums, and the Venezia Unica City Pass those plus the Querini Stampalia, a family palace turned museum, and the Scuola Grande dei Carmini, a confraternity hall with ceilings by the Venetian painter Tiepolo.
The two bundles add St Mark’s Basilica next door and a boat or a gondola, and their names differ by a single “The”: the Venice Pass has three tickets, and The Venice Pass has four parts. With only the Doge’s Palace on your list, our palace ticket costs less than any of them, and our page on the Venice Pass and Venice’s museum passes goes through all four ticket by ticket.
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Venice Museum Pass
The Doge's Palace and the civic museums, out to the Glass Museum on Murano, with nothing to book
from €50
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Venezia Unica City Pass
The civic museums plus the Querini Stampalia and the Carmini, with the palace on the date you choose, in the afternoon from 12:00
from €62.90
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Venice Pass
Three tickets: the Doge's Palace, St Mark's Basilica, and a boat to the islands or a gondola
from €75
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The Venice Pass
Four parts: the basilica, the palace, the boat or a gondola, and the Gondola History Gallery
from €88
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Milan passes: YesMilano, The Milan Pass and the house museums
In Milan, start with the city’s YesMilano pass, and go for the All-Inclusive when three or more of its 14 “premium” visits, such as La Scala’s museum or the Ambrosiana art gallery, are on your list.
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YesMilano City Pass Standard
The Duomo and its terraces, six civic museums with the Sforza Castle, one premium visit, and three days of metro, trams and buses
from €60
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YesMilano City Pass All-Inclusive
All 14 premium visits, such as Villa Necchi, and the lift to the Duomo terraces
from €90
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The Milan Pass
From Zani Viaggi, a Milan tour operator: the hop-on hop-off bus and public transport, with La Scala's museum, the Ambrosiana and Leonardo3, for 48 or 72 hours
from €99
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Case Museo Card
Milan's four house museums, one entry each, over a year
from €25
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There’s also a fifth, the Milan City Card, which packs the cathedral and Leonardo3, a museum of Leonardo’s machines, with a transport card. Our Milan Pass and Milan’s city passes page adds up each of the five against the same tickets bought one by one.
Naples passes: the Campania Artecard, the Naples City Card and the City Center Pass
For Pompeii and the big museums around Naples, the card is the Campania Artecard, the region’s own. Its 365 Lite version, at €31, lets you into each state site on its list once in the year from your first visit, and it costs less than the 7-day card, at €49, which stops at five included entries.
The Sansevero Chapel, home of the Veiled Christ, is on none of the Artecard versions, and of the Naples city passes, only the Naples City Card includes it.
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Campania Artecard
365 Lite: one entry a year at Pompeii, Herculaneum, the national archaeological museum (MANN), Caserta, Capodimonte and the other state sites on its list
from €31
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Naples City Card
The Sansevero Chapel, the MANN with an audio guide, and a guided tour underground or of the catacombs
from €72
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Naples City Center Pass
The MANN, the Treasure of San Gennaro at the cathedral and the LAPIS museum at the Pietrasanta basilica
from €50.50
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VeronaCard: the Arena, Juliet’s House and the city buses
Verona has one card, the VeronaCard, and the city’s big sights are on it: one entry each at the Arena, Juliet’s House, Castelvecchio, the Lamberti Tower, the Roman Theatre and four of the main churches, for 24 or 48 hours, with the city buses included.
Turin: the Torino+Piemonte Card and the Royal Pass
The Torino+Piemonte Card comes from Turin’s tourist office, and each card covers an adult and a child under 12. The Egyptian Museum, the cinema museum inside the Mole Antonelliana and the Royal Museums are on it, and so are the royal palace at Venaria and the hunting lodge at Stupinigi outside the city.
The 24-hour card stops at three museums. The longer ones have no limit, though each museum takes the card once.
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Torino+Piemonte Card
The Egyptian Museum, the Mole's cinema museum, the Royal Museums and the royal palaces around Turin, for 24, 48, 72 or 120 hours
from €29.90
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Turin Royal Pass
Four days at the Savoy royal residences and Superga; the Egyptian Museum only at a reduced price
from €30
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Cinque Terre Card: the coastal paths and the trains
The five villages share one card, the National Park’s Cinque Terre Card, for one, two or three days. Both versions cover the paid stretches of the coastal path, the Via dell’Amore included, and the train version adds the regional trains between Levanto and La Spezia, so you can walk one stretch and ride the next.
From 2 November to 31 December 2026 the one-day train card costs €17.30 for an adult, and the Trekking card, for the paths alone, €10. This winter the path from Manarola to Corniglia is closed, and the Via dell’Amore takes a booked time on top of the card.
We sell the card inside our day trip from La Spezia, with a tour leader and the train card for the day.
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Frequently asked questions
Is there one city card for the whole of Italy?
No. Each city has its own cards, so a trip to Rome, Florence and Venice takes one in each. Two reach beyond their city: the Campania Artecard covers Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Royal Palace of Caserta as well as the state museums in Naples, and the Torino+Piemonte Card takes in the royal residences and castles of Piedmont around Turin.
Is a city card worth it in Italy?
When the tickets you'd buy anyway come to more than the card. On our ticket prices, the Firenze Card gets ahead from four of Florence's big museums, the YesMilano Standard from the third paid visit, the VeronaCard with Juliet's House and two more sights, and the Campania Artecard 365 Lite with Pompeii and the archaeological museum. With the Colosseum alone, the Roma Pass costs more than the ticket, and each museum or day on the metro you add tips the sums towards it.
How much does a city card cost in Italy?
It depends on the city and the hours. On this site the Roma Pass costs €44.90 for 48 hours, the Firenze Card €94 for 72 hours, the Venice Museum Pass €50 and the YesMilano Standard €60. The Campania Artecard 365 Lite is €31, and the 24-hour VeronaCard and Torino+Piemonte Card cost €39 and €29.90.
What does a city card in Italy include?
Entries to a city's museums and sights over a number of hours or days, and in some cities public transport too. The Roma Pass includes one or two entries of your choice and a reduced ticket everywhere else on its list, while the Firenze Card, the Venice Museum Pass and the Torino+Piemonte Card get you once into each place they cover. Bundles such as the Rome Tourist Card are dated tickets you choose as you buy.
Which Italian city cards include public transport?
In Rome, the Roma Pass covers the metro, buses and trams for its 48 or 72 hours, and the 72-hour Omnia Card comes with a Roma Pass for adults, so it covers the metro too. In Milan, the YesMilano passes give three days of metro, trams and buses, The Milan Pass gives 48 or 72 hours of public transport and a hop-on hop-off bus, and the Milan City Card comes with a transport card. The VeronaCard includes Verona's city buses, and the Cinque Terre train card the regional trains between Levanto and La Spezia. The cards on this site for Florence, Venice, Naples and Turin include no public transport, so in Venice the vaporetto is a ticket of its own.
Do any city cards cover the airport?
In Rome and Milan, one airport each: Ciampino and Linate. The Roma Pass includes the ATAC buses 520 and 720 between Ciampino and the metro, but not the trains from Fiumicino, and the YesMilano passes include the M4 metro to Linate, 12 minutes from San Babila, but not Malpensa or Bergamo. The Milan City Card leaves out the airports too, the VeronaCard leaves out the Airlink bus, and the Florence and Venice cards have no transport at all.
Do I still have to book with a city card?
At the big museums, yes. With the Roma Pass you reserve the Colosseum as a Roma Pass ticket on the Colosseum's own ticket site, up to a month ahead, and the Borghese Gallery needs a booking whether or not you have a card. The Firenze Card needs a booking, included in the card, at the Uffizi, the Accademia and Palazzo Vecchio, one for each person, and the YesMilano wants a day and time in its app for every visit, the Duomo too. The Venice Museum Pass needs none, and the VeronaCard only at Juliet's House.
Do Italian city cards skip the line?
They get you past the ticket desk, not the security check. At the Colosseum and at every YesMilano visit, it's your booked time that takes you past the desk, and at the Uffizi the Firenze Card's booking gets you in by the entrance for booked visitors. The Roma Pass has a line of its own only at Castel Sant'Angelo, and with the Venice Museum Pass you can take the fast line at the Doge's Palace once you've swapped the voucher at another museum. At Turin's Egyptian Museum, cardholders get no preferential access.
When does a city card start counting?
The timed cards start at first use, not when you buy them: the Firenze Card at the first museum you walk into, the Torino+Piemonte Card at its first scan in a museum, the Campania Artecard at the first site, and the VeronaCard when you activate it in the app. The YesMilano runs for three calendar days from the day you activate it, so start it in the morning, and the Roma Pass's transport starts when you switch it on in the app. The Rome Tourist Card, the Vatican City Pass and the Venice bundles are tickets for dates you pick as you buy.
Is a city card digital, or do I collect it?
The Roma Pass, the YesMilano passes and the VeronaCard live as QR codes in their own apps, and the Torino+Piemonte Card comes as a QR code you can use at once, with no plastic card. The Firenze Card can be a digital card in its app or a physical one collected in Florence with the printed voucher and your ID. You swap the voucher for The Milan Pass at the Milan Visitor Center on Largo Cairoli and for the Venice Museum Pass at one of its museums, while the Rome Tourist Card, the Naples City Card and the City Center Pass arrive as tickets by email. Check your phone before you buy: the Roma Pass app needs iOS 16.6 or Android 7 or later with Google services, plus mobile data in Italy, and the YesMilano app iOS 16 or Android 9 or later.
Do children need a city card in Italy?
Not for Italy's state museums, which let under-18s in free, and Verona's Arena and civic museums do the same; at the Colosseum, though, each child still needs a named ticket booked online. That makes the Roma Pass, the VeronaCard and the Campania Artecard cards for the adults. The Firenze Card puts the under-18s in your family on your card, the Torino+Piemonte Card takes a child under 12 with each adult, and the Omnia Card and the Venice Museum Pass have child prices of their own.
Are Italian museums free on the first Sunday of the month?
Yes, at Italy's state museums, for everyone: the Colosseum, the Uffizi, the Accademia, Pompeii and Turin's Royal Museums, and in Rome and Milan the city's own museums too. A card gives you nothing extra at those doors, and in Florence and Naples it loses its priority entry that day, so plan the card's days around it. Turin's Egyptian Museum and Venaria aren't part of it. In Verona the civic museums charge €1 that Sunday from November to March, and Castelvecchio €4 until 31 January.
Can I cancel a city card?
Some you can: the VeronaCard and the Torino+Piemonte Card up to the date you picked, The Milan Pass up to the day before, the Venice Museum Pass, the Campania Artecard and the Turin Royal Pass up to 24 hours before, and the Firenze Card comes with free cancellation. In Rome, the Roma Pass, the 24-hour Omnia Card, the Rome Tourist Card and the Vatican City Pass can't be refunded once bought, and nor can the Venezia Unica City Pass, the two Venice bundles, the Milan City Card or the Naples City Card and City Center Pass. A YesMilano pass can't be refunded once you've activated it or booked a visit.
Is the Vatican included in the Roma Pass?
No. The Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel belong to the Vatican, a separate state with its own tickets, and St Peter's Basilica is free to enter for everyone. The Omnia Card and the Vatican City Pass both include the Vatican Museums, and the Rome Tourist Card lets you pick them as one of its three tickets.
Does the Firenze Card include the Duomo?
No. The cathedral is free to enter, and Brunelleschi's dome, Giotto's bell tower, the Baptistery, the cathedral museum and Santa Reparata come on a separate Duomo ticket. Ours with the dome costs €58, and the one without it €29.90.
Is the Last Supper included in any Milan pass?
No: neither YesMilano pass has it, and nor do The Milan Pass, the Milan City Card or the Case Museo Card. Every visit is for a set time with your name on the ticket, and the museum's own tickets come out in batches a few months at a time and sell out. The tickets we sell are guided tours with the entry included, from €95.
Does the Campania Artecard include Pompeii?
Yes, the ancient city, with no time to book: Artecard holders go in by the Piazza Esedra entrance and get a named ticket at the desk with their ID. The suburban villas, the Villa of the Mysteries among them, are on no card. Nor is Vesuvius, whose summit is sold in 10-minute slots: our ticket costs €21.60.
Is the Egyptian Museum included in the Torino+Piemonte Card?
Yes. The museum has no ticket office and sells entry only online, so you book a 'CARD Entrance' ticket on its site, which the card covers, and show the card and your ID at the door. The Royal Museums work the other way round: you collect the ticket at the desk, since card entries can't be booked online. In the Mole Antonelliana the cinema museum is included and the panoramic lift isn't, though the card gets you a reduced lift ticket.
