Castel Sant'Angelo Museum Skip the Line Ticket in Rome
- 1.5–2 hours
- 5 languages
- Mobile ticket
Highlights
Visit Castel Sant'Angelo – archaeological site and museum, with a past as fortress, prison, and papal residence – site of episodes of great artistic and historical importance. The National Museum of Castel Sant'Angelo is home to numerous collections, which are largely accessible to the general public, including furniture, furnishings, and precious sculpture and paintings.
Inclusions
What's included
- temporary exhibition
- Visit to the museum
What's not
- Food and drinks
- Transportation to/from attractions
Itinerary
Built around 123 A.D. as a tomb for Emperor Hadrian and his family, Castel Sant'Angelo has had an atypical destiny. While all the other Roman monuments were swept away, reduced to ruins, or used as “quarries” to be recycled into new, modern buildings, Castel Sant'Angelo – through an uninterrupted series of developments and transformations that seem to slip into each other with seamlessly continuity – accompanies almost two thousand years of the fate and history of Rome. Its proximity to Saint Peter's Basilica, plus its strategic position at the north entrance of the city and its closed and imposing body, made Castel Sant'Angelo center of political interests From funerary monument to fortified outpost, from dark and terrible dungeon and prison during the Risorgimento to splendid Renaissance residence and now to a museum, Castel Sant'Angelo with its solemn, strong walls and sumptuously frescoed rooms embodies the history of the Eternal City, inextricably linking past and present.
Cancellation
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Know before you go
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Weekend in Italy
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- You must print and present Weekend in Italy confirmation voucher in order to redeem your tickets at the moment of the visit.
- INFORMATION about access for visitors with limited mobility and disabilities: Access restricted to a partial use of outdoor spaces. The halls of the exhibitions are not accessible to people with mobility problems
How it compares in Rome
- Its from-price is 34% below the median of the 477 attraction tickets we list in Rome.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 52 of 477.
About Rome
Rome layers nearly three thousand years of history into one walkable city, from the Colosseum and Forum to Baroque piazzas and Vatican art.
Ancient Rome is still in plain sight. The Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill sit together at the city's heart, the Pantheon still stands with its open oculus, and fragments of temples and aqueducts turn up between apartment blocks. Across the Tiber, Vatican City holds St Peter's Basilica, the Vatican Museums and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Top-ranked sights in Rome: Colosseum, Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel.
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