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YesMilano City Pass Standard: the Duomo, six civic museums and 3 days of transport

The YesMilano Standard costs €60 and puts the Duomo, the city’s six civic museums and three days of metro, trams and buses on one pass. At the Duomo you get the cathedral, the Duomo Museum, the church of San Gottardo in Corte and the rooftop terraces, which you climb by the stairs. The six civic museums are the Sforza Castle (home of Michelangelo’s Pietà Rondanini), the Museo del Novecento, the Natural History Museum, the Aquarium, the Modern Art Gallery (GAM) and the Archaeological Museum.

On top of that comes one premium activity, chosen from a list of 14: La Scala’s museum, the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Leonardo3, the science museum, the Highline on the roof of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and Villa Necchi Campiglio are among them. It really is one: once you’ve booked your pick in the app, you can’t book a second.

The three days are calendar days, counted from the day you activate the pass, not 72 hours, so switch it on in the morning: activate it at 18:00 on a Friday and Sunday is still your last day. The transport covers zones Mi1 to Mi3, Milan and the first ring of towns around it.

Everything runs through the YesMilano Pass app, which needs iOS 16 or Android 9 or later.

There’s one price for every age, and children of 5 and under don’t need a pass. Once you’ve activated it or booked anything, it can’t be refunded.

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Is the YesMilano Standard worth it? The sums on our tickets

The Duomo is the biggest ticket on the pass. Our ticket for the cathedral with the rooftop terraces costs €27, and the Sforza Castle museums €20 with an audio guide app, so those two alone come to less than the pass.

The third paid visit tips it. Add the Museo del Novecento at €18.50, or spend your premium pick on the Ambrosiana at €21.50 or Leonardo3 at €16, and the three tickets come to more than the €60 of the pass. Each museum after that widens the gap. These sums leave the transport out, and if you’re staying in the centre you may not use much of it: the Duomo, the Galleria and La Scala are a short walk apart.

Which premium activity you pick matters too. The Ambrosiana is the dearest of those we sell on their own, with Leonardo’s Portrait of a Musician and original sheets of his Codex Atlanticus, but it closes on Wednesdays. Leonardo3, in the Galleria, opens every day of the year but Christmas, so it’s the pick that suits a Monday, when the civic museums are shut. La Scala’s museum and the Highline aren’t sold on their own on our site, so they stay out of the sums. If the Highline is your pick, book it early: it goes by the hour, and whole hours sell out at weekends.

With children the sums change. The pass has no child price, under-18s go into the civic museums free anyway, and under-14s ride the metro free, so a child’s pass buys little more than the Duomo and the premium pick. The calculator near the top of the page does the sum for you: tick the places you’ll visit and it shows what each pass saves you against the tickets one by one.

Before you pick your three days, check them against the closing days, because a pass started on a Sunday spends its second day on a Monday.

YesMilano All-Inclusive: all 14 premium activities and the Duomo lift

For €90, the All-Inclusive is the Standard with two changes: you go up to the Duomo terraces by lift, and all 14 premium activities are included, not one. The lift takes you to the first level of the terraces; the second level is on foot either way, and everyone walks down.

The premium activities are where it earns the extra. The Standard, at €60, already covers your first premium visit, so the All-Inclusive pays off once the ones after it add up to more than the extra it costs over the Standard. On our tickets, two more on top of your first, the Ambrosiana at €21.50 and Villa Necchi at €18, already do; one more on its own doesn’t. La Scala’s museum, the Highline, the Poldi Pezzoli and the Triennale’s design museum come on top.

What limits it is time. Each premium visit is booked for a day and time like everything else, and the closing days above leave fewer slots than 14 museums need, so plan the three days before you buy. One pick needs checking before you count on it: the Galleria Campari is out in Sesto San Giovanni, on the M1, and its site announces building work until 30 November, with no opening hours published.

The discounts are the same 18 as on the Standard, listed above.

The Milan Pass: La Scala’s museum, the Duomo terraces and a hop-on hop-off bus

The Milan Pass comes from Zani Viaggi, a Milan tour operator, and at €99 it’s the dearest one on this page. That price is for anyone 12 and over, with a lower one for children from 4 to 11, and the pass runs for 48 or 72 hours from activation, depending on the option you choose. You swap the voucher for it at the Milan Visitor Center on Largo Cairoli.

Those hours give you the City Sightseeing hop-on hop-off bus and Milan’s public transport, plus the Duomo terraces by lift, La Scala’s museum, the Ambrosiana, the science museum, Leonardo3, the Bagatti Valsecchi and the Museo d’Arte e Scienza. A city map, a guidebook and a booklet of discount vouchers come with it.

The cathedral isn’t on its list, only the terraces, so for the inside add our cathedral ticket at €12.50. It has none of the civic museums either, which leaves out the Sforza Castle and the Novecento.

On our tickets, the terraces by lift at €23, the Ambrosiana at €21.50, the science museum at €13 and Leonardo3 at €16 come to less than the pass. Add the hop-on hop-off bus, €30 for 48 hours, and they go past it, so the pass comes out ahead if you’ll ride the bus; La Scala’s museum and the Bagatti Valsecchi, which we don’t sell on their own, come on top. Tiqets lets you cancel up to the day before.

Milan City Card: the cathedral, Leonardo3 and a transport card in one package

The Milan City Card is a package of four tickets, each with its own date and rules, for €48. You get the cathedral with the church of San Gottardo in Corte, and the Duomo Museum if you take that option; Leonardo3, the museum of Leonardo’s machines in the Galleria; a transport card for the metro, trams and buses; and a city audio guide app with more than 100 stops.

The transport card doesn’t reach the airports or Rho Fiera, the trade fair grounds outside the city. The package has no rooftop terraces: if you want the roof as well, our terraces ticket costs €19.50 by the stairs. Once bought, the card can’t be refunded.

It’s the smallest of the passes on this page, built around the Duomo and the Galleria. The receipt below prices each of the four parts on its own.

Case Museo Card: Milan’s four house museums for a year

At €25, less for students up to 26, the Case Museo Card gives you one entry at each of Milan’s four house museums. Two of them sit close together in the fashion district: the Poldi Pezzoli, a nobleman’s collection of Renaissance paintings and armour, and the Bagatti Valsecchi, a palace two brothers built in the 1880s and filled with 15th and 16th-century art. Villa Necchi Campiglio, the architect Piero Portaluppi’s 1930s villa with its pool, is by Palestro on the M1, and the Boschi Di Stefano flat, off Corso Buenos Aires, is hung with 20th-century Italian art.

The card is personal and lasts a year from the day you buy it, so the four houses don’t have to fit into one trip. The Boschi Di Stefano is free for everyone, which means the card is paying for the other three. We sell Villa Necchi on its own at €18; the Poldi Pezzoli and the Bagatti Valsecchi have no ticket of their own on our site, so for those two the card is the way in.

All four are open from Wednesday to Sunday. On top of that the Boschi Di Stefano opens on Tuesdays, and the Poldi Pezzoli on Mondays, closing on Tuesdays instead, while the Bagatti Valsecchi and Villa Necchi shut on both days. The two houses in the fashion district make one morning.

Three of the houses are also premium activities on the YesMilano passes. If two or three of them are what you’re after, the Case Museo Card covers them all, where the Standard’s single premium pick covers one.

Which Milan pass to buy for your trip

With the five side by side, the choice comes down to how long you’re staying and what’s on your list.

The Last Supper: on no Milan pass, so book a guided tour

None of these passes includes Leonardo’s Last Supper, and the visit works differently from everything else in Milan. Every slot is booked for a set time, with each visitor’s name on the ticket, and groups of up to 40 get 15 minutes inside the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, where Leonardo painted it on the end wall.

The museum’s own tickets come out in batches a few months at a time, and they sell out; right now nothing can be booked after 31 December 2026. The tickets we sell are guided tours with the entry included. The first one, from €95, gives you a skip-the-line entry at a set time, a live guide and a headset, for about an hour in all. It can’t be cancelled.

Another tour folds the Last Supper into a longer visit: it adds the Duomo and La Scala’s theatre and museum, three and a half hours with a coach between them, though without the Duomo’s terraces. Both YesMilano passes already include the Duomo and the castle, and La Scala’s museum as a premium pick, so with a YesMilano the plain Last Supper tour is the one to take. The refectory is shut on Mondays, and every option is on our Last Supper tickets page.

Brera, Fondazione Prada, San Siro and the Branca Tower: tickets alongside a Milan pass

A few of Milan’s big visits sit outside every pass. The Pinacoteca di Brera, the Italian state’s picture gallery in the city, with Mantegna’s Dead Christ and Hayez’s Kiss, is always booked for a day and time; our small-group tour, from €64.90, walks you through the Brera district before it takes you in.

A ticket for Fondazione Prada costs €19 and covers every exhibition in the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas’s conversion of an old distillery; it closes on Tuesdays. The San Siro stadium tour takes you into the dressing rooms of AC Milan and Inter and out to the benches, though not on match days. The Branca Tower in Parco Sempione, by the architect Gio Ponti, is the short one: a lift up to a lookout close to 100 metres above the park.

Milan’s airports and public transport with a city pass

The YesMilano pass’s three days of transport cover the metro, trams and buses in zones Mi1 to Mi3, the M4 to Linate airport included, 12 minutes from San Babila. Malpensa and Bergamo airports are outside it, and the Milan City Card’s transport card doesn’t reach an airport either. Our Malpensa Express ticket costs €15, and the train reaches Milano Centrale in about 51 minutes; the buses and the fixed taxi fare are on getting from Milan’s airports into the city.

Without a pass, Milan’s metro runs on contactless: you tap a bank card at the gates on the way in and out, and tapping stops charging once you reach the daily cap. The tickets and the fares are on Milan’s metro and public transport.

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