Castel Sant’Angelo Rome Tickets: Book Your Visit Online

Castel Sant’Angelo, also known as Hadrian’s Mausoleum, is one of the most fascinating buildings in Rome and one of Italy’s most visited sites: on this page you will find the different purchase options and ticket prices for your visit to the museum, as well as basic information (opening hours and accessibility) to better organise your experience.

Before we begin, a brief preamble: online ticket booking for Castel Sant’Angelo is strongly recommended.

By booking in advance, you will avoid long queues and crowds at the ticket office and can choose from different ticket types (e.g. guided tours) that may no longer be available if you buy your ticket on the spot.

If you have to make a quick decision, the most popular option is the basic ticket with reserved entrance (skip the line), which allows you free entry to the Castle and the National Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo while skipping the ticket line.

You can add the audio guide to this ticket, or you can consider booking a guided tour to dive deeper into the history and architecture of this iconic monument.

If you want to save money, however, I recommend the combined tickets, which allow you to add another attraction in Rome, such as the Colosseum or the boat tour, to your ticket for the castle.After this long introduction, now let’s discover together all the types of tickets to access Castel Sant’Angelo Rome!

Castel Sant’Angelo Tickets: Description and Prices

To begin with, here is a table with all the tickets (and related costs) to access Castel Sant’Angelo Rome.

Castel Sant’Angelo	Price	Ticket
Entry Ticket (Skip-the-Line)	from 19€	Buy Now
Entry Ticket + Audio Guide	from 32€	Buy Now
Entry Ticket + Guided Tour	from 40€	Buy Now
Combined Ticket Castel S. Angelo + Pantheon	from 53€	Buy Now
Combined Ticket Castel S. Angelo + Vatican Museums and Gardens	from 80€	Buy Now
Combined Ticket Castel S. Angelo + St. Peter’s Basilica and Dome	from 55€	Buy Now
Combined Ticket Castel S. Angelo + Borghese Gallery	from 55€	Buy Now
Combined Tcket Castel S. Angelo + Bus Tour in Rome	from 51€	Buy Now
Combined Tcket Castel S. Angelo + Boat Tour	from 40€	Buy Now
Rome Tourist Card	from 93€	Buy Now
Roma Pass	from 55€	Buy Now

Castel Sant’Angelo: Skip-the-Line Entry Ticket

This is the best-selling type of ticket and allows quick access to the Castel Sant’Angelo Museum by skipping the queue. All you have to do is present yourself at the turnstile at the entrance and show your ticket via smartphone. Ticket prices start at €19.

Castel Sant’Angelo: Entry Ticket + Audio Guide

If you are interested in learning more about the structure, interior and works inside the museum without taking a guided tour, I recommend purchasing the ticket with audio guide. Once you have purchased your ticket, you can use the audio guide from your smartphone through the POPGuide App (available on Google Play or App Store). The App will guide you through the visit of the National Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo. The cost of the ticket starts at €26.

Guided Tours of Castel Sant’Angelo Rome

The best way to get to know Castel Sant’Angelo in depth is with a guided tour: for enthusiasts and the curious alike, an expert guide will introduce you to the secrets of Hadrian’s Mausoleum.

You will be able to access the different areas of the museum by skipping the queue at the ticket office. Crossing the Angel Bridge and entering the fortress, you will discover in detail the mausoleum, the courtyard, the prisons and finally the Angel Terrace with a breathtaking panoramic view of the entire city.

For the guided tour there is usually a meeting point at the main entrance or at the Bridge of Castel Sant’Angelo, but you will find all the details on the purchase.

Below you will find all possible guided tours, let’s go!

Castel Sant’Angelo: Quick Guided Tour (1h)

If you are short of time but don’t want to miss out on the company of an experienced guide, this tour is for you! The tour lasts about 1 hour and prices start from €40. The ticket includes skip-the-line entry to the museum and at the end of the guided tour you can continue your visit to Hadrian’s Mausoleum on your own.

Castel Sant’Angelo: Guided Tour in English, French, Italian or Other Languages

This guided tour is ideal for exploring the architecture and areas within the ancient fortress in detail. The duration of the guided tour is 2 hours or more and prices start at €51.

Book your guided tour in English here:

Book your guided tour in Italian, French and other languages here:

If you did not find a guided tour to your liking, you can find some alternatives here:

Combined Tickets for Castel Sant’Angelo

Combination tickets are the best choice if you plan to visit other attractions on your Roman holiday (e.g. the Pantheon, St Peter’s Basilica or the Vatican Museums) or if you are curious about experiences such as a boat tour on the Tiber or a bus tour of Rome. 

Combined tickets also save money by having a lower total cost than single tickets.

Search among the available offers for the monument or museum you want to visit or get inspired!

Castel Sant’Angelo + Pantheon + audioguide tickets

This option combines the ticket for the guided tour with the entrance ticket to the Pantheon. The cost of the ticket starts at €53.

Vatican Tickets: Minibus Gardens + Castel Sant’Angelo

This option combines the fast track ticket to the castle museum with the admission ticket to the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel and also includes a bus tour of the Vatican Gardens. The price of the combined visit starts at €80.

Castel Sant’Angelo Entrance Ticket + Audio Guide + St. Peter’s Basilica and Dome

This option combines the fast track ticket with audio guide for the castle with the entrance ticket to St. Peter’s Basilica and its Dome. The total price for access starts at €55.

Castel Sant’Angelo + Galleria Borghese Entry Ticket

This option combines a fast track ticket with audio guide for the Castel Sant’Angelo Museum with a ticket for the Galleria Borghese. The ticket price starts at €55.

Castel Sant’Angelo Entry Ticket + Audio Guide + Bus Tour in Rome

This option combines the ticket for Castel Sant’Angelo (skip the line + audio guide) with a ticket for the bus tour of Rome. The total cost of the combined visit starts from 51€.

Castel Sant’Angelo entrance ticket + Boat Tour on the Tiber

This option combines the ticket for the guided tour with the ticket for the boat tour on the Tiber. The price of this ticket starts at 40€.

Other Combined Tickets Options

If you have not found a combination that suits your taste or needs, you can search here for alternatives.

Roma Tourist Card and Roma Pass

If you plan to visit Castel Sant’Angelo, St Peter’s Basilica and other places of interest in Rome, you may consider buying a tourist pass, which entitles you to access several attractions at a reduced price. You can choose between the Roma Tourist Card and the Roma Pass. Let’s find out the pros and cons of each tourist card together.

Rome Tourist Card

If you are planning a stay of a few days or a week in Rome, the Tourist Card brings together numerous attractions at an affordable price. You can also compose your ticket according to your needs and preferences.

The tickets included are:

• Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill.
• Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel.
• A museum of your choice between Castel Sant’Angelo, Galleria Borghese or the Dome of St. Peter’s Basilica.
• Audioguide app with more than 130 points of interest in Rome.
• 10% discount other attractions in Rome

Roma Pass

Another way to access Castel Sant’Angelo is by purchasing the Roma Pass. The National Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo is in fact included among the attractions and monuments in the Roma Pass circuit, along with the public transport included in the Rome metropolitan area.

The tickets included are:

• Direct entrance to two monuments or attractions of your choice, 
• Unlimited travel by all means of public transport in Rome (excluding trains) for three days (from the first use of the card).
• Access to toilets around Rome with P.Stop network personnel

Rome Jubilee Events at Castel Sant’Angelo

In view of the Jubilee 2025, Rome has started to host numerous events.

Castel Sant’Angelo hosts the exhibition for the Jubilee of Rome: GIUBILEO 2025. THE WAYS OF FAITH. Testimonies of art and thought.

The exhibition presents a journey through more than five hundred years of art history, from Vittore Crivelli to Omar Galliani, exploring works by artists such as Orazio Gentileschi, Giacomo Manzù, Mario Sironi and Pericle Fazzini.

Here you can find useful information for accessing the exhibition:

• The exhibition runs from 22 January to 30 June 2024.
• The exhibition is open daily (except Mondays) and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., with the last access allowed at 6 p.m.
• The price of the exhibition is €6.50 (€2 reduced ticket).

To enter the exhibition you must have an entrance ticket for Castel Sant’Angelo.

Visiting Castel Sant’Angelo: Brief Description of the Tour

Below is the experience of a castelsantangeloroma.it member, who took a tour inside the attraction:

On my last trip to Rome, I chose to buy online a skipping ticket with audio guide for my visit to the wonderful Castel Sant’Angelo;

I chose to book my entry on a warm morning in the middle of the week, as I was looking for a time slot that would give me maximum comfortableness and above all plenty of time to take photos and notes;

A few minutes before my appointment I crossed the Ponte Sant’Angelo and, having arrived in front of the entrance to the National Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo, I looked around. I immediately recognised the girl from Touristation by her divisa and turned to her for the exchange of my voucher. With her help, I then converted my voucher into an actual entrance ticket and downloaded the POPGuide app onto my smartphone;

This app ensured that I had a map of the castle at my fingertips at all times and an audio guide that could be activated as soon as I was near a point of interest. In order not to disturb other users, I decided to use my Bluetooth earphones to listen to the guide;

From the entrance, the path is essentially free, although the numbering of the rooms suggests an ideal itinerary that proceeds by levels. In fact, the castle is ideally composed of seven levels that start from the Ambulacrum of Boniface IX, i.e. the court between the castle cylinder and the outer walls, and rise up to the Terrazzo dell’Angelo;

The POPGuide app features eighteen audio tracks that, as the tour progresses, help to better understand the history of the different environments that make up the castle. If desired, the tracks can also be read.

Here are, in order, the tracks I listened to during my visit to Castel Sant’Angelo:.

• the outside;
• fortification, bastions;
• the Passetto di Borgo;
• the Shooting Court and the Chapel of the Condemned;
• the Dromos and the Atrium, the Interior and the Elicoidal Ramp Elicoidal Ramp;
• the Rampa diametrale;
• the Urn Hall;
• the Cortile dell’Angelo;
• the Hall of Apollo;
• the “Giretti“;
• the Loggia of Paul III;
• the Library Room;
• the Treasure Room;
• the Terrazza dell’Angelo;
• the Panoramic view from the Terrace;
• the Sala Paolina;
• the Loggia of Julius II;
• the Courtyard of Alexander VI;

The tracks can be freely re-read and listened to even when one is not in the environment they describe;

I must say that I am glad that I bought my ticket with audioguide already online: it allowed me to skip the queue that was forming in front of the ticket offices and guaranteed me on-site support from the staff of a specialised tourism organisation like Touristation;

Moreover, the comfortable audio guide was able to give me the freedom of movement that I was looking for, allowing me to visit Castel Sant’Angelo in the manner I preferred;

Castel Sant’Angelo Museum Rome: Where It Is, Opening Hours and Booking

Where it is located and how to get there

Castel S.Angelo is located at Lungotevere 50, Rome, the entrance to which is situated on the bank of the Tiber, at one end of Ponte S.Angelo. If you are visiting other sites in Rome, it is useful to know that Castel Sant’Angelo is a 35-minute walk (2.9 km or 1.8 mi) from the Colosseum and a 6-minute walk (1.3 km or 0.8 mi) from the Vatican City.

For more information, read the post with all the datails on the location and how to get there.

Opening and visiting hours

Castel S. Angelo Rome is open every day of the year (including holidays) from 9 am to 7.30 pm. Last admission is at 6 pm.

For more information, read the article with the opening and closing hours of Castel S.Angelo.

Reservations for schools or large groups

On opening days during regular opening hours, reservations are compulsory for groups of more than 15 people. Access to non-booked groups will be subject to quota rules for security reasons.

School groups may enter by maximum:

• 10 students with 1 accompanying person (pre-school, primary and secondary school);
• 15 students with 1 accompanying person (secondary school).

To book, please send an e-mail to: info@tosc.it

Castel Sant’Angelo Roma Ticket Price: FAQ

Contacts and Ticketing

• National Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo
• Address: Lungotevere Castello, 50 – 00193 Rome
• Email: info@tosc.it
• Tel: +39 06 6819111 (from Italy)
• Director: Prof. Massimo Osanna