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Rome Tourist Card
Pick your days, tick three boxes, and the Vatican and the Colosseum are sorted before you pack.
The Rome Tourist Card gets you into the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum on the dates you choose, bought together in one go. It's a bundle of tickets sold by Tiqets, and you pick one from each of three groups: the Vatican Museums or Castel Sant'Angelo, then the Colosseum and Roman Forum with an extra of your choice, then St Peter's Basilica or the Pantheon. A Rome audio guide app comes with it, and the tickets arrive by email.
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Which Rome card pays off for your trip?
Pick how many days you’ve got and the sights you want to see. The calculator adds up the tickets and rides, sets them against the card and tells you right away whether it pays off, and by how much, at today’s prices. No email, no sign-up.
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How long, and who’s going?
How the Rome Tourist Card works: your dates, three choices, one checkout
You build the card yourself in a single checkout. The lowest price is €89, and some picks cost more.
Three steps to the card
- 1Choose your visit dates and how many of you are going.
- 2Pick one ticket from each group: the Vatican or Castel Sant'Angelo, the Colosseum, then St Peter's or the Pantheon.
- 3Get your tickets by email.
The tickets on offer depend on what’s still available on your dates. Tiqets’ page for the card doesn’t say whether you also pick the times. Once you’ve paid, the card can’t be cancelled, so it’s worth waiting until your flights and hotel are booked.
The receipt below adds up one pick from each group, bought separately, and sets the total against the card’s price.
What the card buys
Rome Tourist Card: what's included and what it's worth
You choose one ticket from each group when you buy. Next to each: the cheapest way to buy that ticket, or an equivalent one, on its own here.
- Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel: Fast Track Ticket or Castel Sant'Angelo · €22 €35
- Colosseum & Roman Forum + Audio Guide or the Colosseum ticket with an audio guide · €25 €25
- St. Peter’s Basilica: Reserved Escorted Entry + Audio Guide or Pantheon · €11.80 €19
Also included
- Bought one by one
- €84
- The Rome Tourist Card
- from €89
With these tickets, the card costs at least €5 more
The card's price depends on the tickets you choose; the checkout shows it before you pay.
The Rome Tourist Card’s first choice: Vatican Museums or Castel Sant’Angelo
The first group decides how you get into the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel, with skip-the-line entry or with a hosted entry. The third option is Castel Sant’Angelo instead of the Vatican Museums, so take it only if you’ve decided to skip them this trip.
Colosseum and Roman Forum with the Rome Tourist Card: three versions
Every version of the second group is the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill. What changes is the extra that comes with them: the Mamertine Prison, an audio guide or a multimedia video. None of the three takes you down onto the arena floor; the tickets that do are on the Colosseum tickets page.
The Mamertine Prison is the version that changes the shape of your day, because your Colosseum ticket is collected at the prison.
Colosseum with the Mamertine Prison
- 1Collect your Colosseum ticket at the Mamertine Prison, Clivo Argentario 1, at least an hour before your Colosseum time. Bring valid ID.
- 2Visit the prison then, or come back after the Colosseum: the two are about a 15-minute walk apart.
- 3Be at the Colosseum 15 minutes before your booked time.
With the audio guide or the video, there’s no stop at the prison.
St Peter’s Basilica or the Pantheon: what the card’s third ticket buys
In the third group, St Peter’s Basilica comes three ways: an escorted entry with an audio guide, which doesn’t skip the security line, a guided tour in English, or the basilica together with its dome. Since there’s no charge to go into the basilica, none of them is an entry ticket as such.
The other option is the Pantheon, which has charged for entry since July 2023, so here the card buys you the ticket itself.
What the Rome Tourist Card doesn’t include: transport and the tickets you skip
Beyond the three groups, the card has no public transport, so you pay for the metro, buses and trams separately. The Roma Pass includes them and leaves out the Vatican, and the Roma Pass and Rome’s other city passes are compared on their own page.
Each group also gives you one ticket, not two. If you’d like Castel Sant’Angelo as well as the Vatican Museums, or the Pantheon as well as St Peter’s, buy the second one separately:
Is the Rome Tourist Card worth it? What you’re paying for
Not on price alone. With the picks in the receipt above, the tickets cost less bought separately than the card does.
What you pay for is convenience. If the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum are the core of your trip, the card puts both on your dates in a single purchase. If you’d rather keep the difference, buy the tickets separately; the metro and buses are extra either way.
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Frequently asked questions
Is the Rome Tourist Card worth it?
Not to save money. With the tickets the receipt on this page adds up, buying each one separately costs less than the card. What the card gives you is the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum bought together, for your dates. If you'd rather pay less, buy the tickets on their own.
What can I choose with the Rome Tourist Card?
One ticket from each of three groups. The first is the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel, with skip-the-line or hosted entry, or Castel Sant'Angelo instead. The second is the Colosseum and Roman Forum with the Mamertine Prison, an audio guide or a multimedia video. The third is St Peter's Basilica, with an escorted entry and audio guide, a guided tour in English or the dome, or the Pantheon instead. The Rome City Audio Guide app and a digital audio guide for the Colosseum come with every card.
Does the Rome Tourist Card include public transport?
No. The card has no metro, bus or tram travel, so those tickets are separate. The Roma Pass includes public transport but leaves out the Vatican Museums.
Can I cancel the Rome Tourist Card?
No. Once you've paid, there's no cancelling it, even if your plans change.
Where do I collect the Colosseum ticket with the Mamertine Prison option?
At the Mamertine Prison, at Clivo Argentario 1, at least an hour before your Colosseum time, and you need valid ID. You can visit the prison before or after the Colosseum, which is about a 15-minute walk away, and you should be at the Colosseum 15 minutes before your booked time. The other two Colosseum options don't involve the prison.
Is the Rome Tourist Card an official city card?
No. It's a bundle of tickets sold by Tiqets, not a card issued by the city of Rome. The city's own card for visitors is the Roma Pass.
