Rome · Piazza della Rotonda
Hadrian’s temple, a church since 609, under the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. Enter under the oculus open to the sky, watch the light move across the coffers, and stop in front of Raphael’s tomb.
Tickets and experiences hand-picked by our editors.
Tickets and tours
In the centre, the guided tour with ticket that has the most reviews. On the sides, the best-selling audio guide ticket and a walk to Trevi and Piazza di Spagna with Pantheon entry included. Each card opens the tour’s full page.
Most reviews
★ 4.41 - 3 hoursFree cancellationA ticket for a time slot plus an audio guide, to use at your own pace. The ticket arrives by email within 24 hours of the visit, and the entry time must be respected.
Most popular
★ 4.845 min - 1.5 hoursFree cancellationA guide accompanies you inside the Pantheon and explains the dome, oculus, and tombs, with the entry ticket already included. It is the guided tour with the most reviews: full name of each participant required at booking.
Pantheon and surroundings
★ 4.61 - 2.5 hoursFree cancellationThe Pantheon ticket is included in all three options: entry only, short guided visit, or full walk. The long one reaches Trevi and Piazza di Spagna, with a gelato break.
Highest rating
★ 4.950 min - 1 hour
At your own pace
★ 4.51 hour
Extra access
★ 4.840 - 80 min
With an archaeologist
★ 5.01.5 hours
In the evening
★ 4.71.5 hours
Roman ruins
★ 4.61.5 hours
At sunset
★ 4.92 hoursCompare
Three questions are enough. Do you want a live guide or do you prefer to go at your own pace? Is the Pantheon enough, or do you also want the squares around? And do you need free cancellation?
| Tours | Meeting point | Entry | Ideal for | Duration | From | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guided tour of the Pantheon with ticket | Piazza della Rotonda, 3 meeting points | Ticket and live guide | A guide inside, the most reviewed | 45 min - 1.5 hours | $28 | Book now |
| Pantheon ticket with audio guide | Piazza della Rotonda | Timed ticket and audio guide | Going at your own pace | 1 - 3 hours | $8 | Book now |
| Pantheon, Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps walking tour | Meeting point at Via Zanardelli 21 | Ticket in every option | The Pantheon and the surrounding squares | 1 - 2.5 hours | $22 | Book now |
| Small-group guided tour | Meeting point in Piazza Capranica | Ticket and guide, small group | The highest-rated guided tour, ticket included | 50 min - 1 hour | $33 | Book now |
| Pantheon ticket with interactive app | Meeting point at Salita de' Crescenzi 35 | Timed ticket and app | Timed ticket and digital guide on your phone | 1 hour | $8 | Book now |
| Small group with exclusive access option | Meeting point at the fountain in front of the Pantheon | Ticket and guide | Short guided tour, extra access as an option | 40 - 80 min | $55 | Book now |
| Semi-private tour with an archaeologist | Meeting point at the elephant in Piazza della Minerva | Ticket and archaeologist | The most technical story: how the dome stands | 1.5 hours | $55 | Book now |
| Pantheon after closing with Bach and Mozart concert | Dedicated entrance on the right side | After closing, with audio guide | An evening with live music inside the Pantheon | 1.5 hours | $49 | Book now |
| Pantheon with access to the Basilica of Neptune | Meeting point in Piazza Capranica | Ticket and Basilica of Neptune | The Roman ruins behind the Pantheon, with a guide | 1.5 hours | $27 | Book now |
| Navona, Pantheon, Trevi and Piazza di Spagna at sunset | Meeting point in Piazza di San Simeone | None: only from the outside | A first evening in Rome, everything from the outside | 2 hours | $49 | Book now |
Every tour here can be cancelled free of charge up to 24 hours before. The official ticket costs 7 euro on the Musei Italiani portal or at the Pantheon ticket office.
Before booking
From 1 July 2026, the Pantheon full-price ticket costs 7 euro, two more than before. Those two euros go to neighbourhood libraries in the most disadvantaged areas, under the Piano Olivetti for Culture. Entry is by time slot until sold out, and the ticket is valid for one entry, in the chosen slot.
Here is what you need to know: there is no skip-the-line entry. The Pantheon itself states this. Whether you buy the ticket on the Musei Italiani portal, at the ticket office, or with an online tour, you enter in your time slot. What changes is the rest: an audio guide, a live guide, free cancellation, a walk through the surrounding squares.
Metres: the dome’s diameter, equal to the height up to the oculus. After almost two thousand years, it is still the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome.
You enter by time slot. Tickets are released mid-previous month; at the ticket office until sold out.
On the first Sunday of the month, under 18, for Rome residents, and for those attending Mass.
No: the Pantheon is not in the Roma Pass or Omnia Card circuit.
Covered shoulders, no very short shorts or skirts. It is a church, and staff may deny entry.
The visit
From 45 minutes for a short guided tour to 1.5 hours with an archaeologist. This is the format for almost all.
Official ticket on the Musei Italiani portal, or an online offer with audio guide or guide. The time slot applies to all.
Mid-month beforeArrive on time at the meeting point or entrance. There is no cloakroom: bring only what you can carry.
On time for the slotThe granite column portico, the bronze doors, then the rotunda and the oculus open to the sky.
43.3 metres of domeAlong the wall, Raphael’s tomb and those of Italy’s first kings, among aedicules and chapels.
Tombs and chapelsPlan your visit
The hours, 2026 prices, Mass, and entry rules: one card each.
Where is it
Pantheon, Piazza della Rotonda, 00186 Rome
The entrance is under the portico, on the square with the fountain and obelisk. Tours do not all start there: each operator has its own meeting point in the surrounding streets, stated in the booking. Arrive a few minutes early, because the time slot does not wait.
Around the visit
When to go, what travellers told us, Mass, and cancellation conditions.
Rome, historic centre
Choose how to enter, then choose the time slot.
Check availabilityReviews
★★★★★Annalisa was my guide for the 45-minute Pantheon visit. In 45 minutes she packed in loads of fascinating information about the Pantheon’s history and answered every question from the group of over 10 people.
★★★★★The audio guide is very useful and lets you appreciate the historic building much more.
★★★★★I recommend a small-group tour, because it is difficult to appreciate and understand the incredible engineering feat of building this temple without the context and knowledge a guide provides.
★★★★★In the end it rained, but luckily we were inside the building when it started, and this made the experience really special and unique.
★★★★★The duration was perfect and the explanation concise. The final 10 minutes to explore without the guide were perfect.
★★★★★I had already visited the Pantheon but left understanding little of what I saw. Daniele’s passion and knowledge of the building left me with a new appreciation for the Pantheon.
★★★★★The acoustics inside the Pantheon are incredible. It is truly beautiful.
★★★★★The Pantheon is wonderful, beautiful, and interesting, with its dome and fantastic architecture.
★★★★★We saw so many incredible places and rarely went more than one or two blocks without seeing something new.
After the visit
After the Pantheon, Roman street food with a guide: the Ghetto, Campo de' Fiori, and a line of tastings.
After the dome, street food: two and a half hours between the Ghetto and Campo de' Fiori, with supplì, pizza, and gelato. Not suitable for vegans or those with gluten intolerance.
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The guide
The Pantheon seems simple: a square, a portico, a door. Then you enter, and you understand why for almost two thousand years people have looked up and stood still.
On the pediment it says that Marcus Agrippa built it, consul for the third time. That is not entirely true. The first temple, commissioned by Agrippa under Augustus, burned in 80 AD; Domitian rebuilt it and it burned again in 110. The one you see today was completed by Emperor Hadrian, probably around 126, and Hadrian chose to put Agrippa’s original inscription back on the facade. For this reason, the exact construction date remains uncertain.
On 13 May 609, Pope Boniface IV, who had received the building from Byzantine Emperor Phocas, consecrated it to Santa Maria and the Martyrs. Since then it has been a church, the Basilica of Santa Maria ad Martyres, and it is this continuous use that is the main reason it has survived so intact to this day.
Inside, the numbers match: the rotunda’s diameter and the height up to the oculus both measure 43.3 metres, so much so that a sphere of that size would fit inside. The dome measures 150 Roman feet, the oculus 30. It is the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome, and the oculus has never been closed. When it rains, it rains inside: the floor slopes down about 30 centimetres towards the drains.
The portico rests on sixteen granite columns from Egypt, each 11.9 metres tall and weighing about 60 tonnes. The portico’s large bronze beams are no longer there: Pope Urban VIII Barberini had them melted down, and a pasquinade of the time commented quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barberini.
Along the wall are the tombs. Raphael is in an aedicule of the rotunda, with the inscription "Ossa et cineres" on the sarcophagus and his fiancée Maria Bibbiena beside him. Not far away are Annibale Carracci, the composer Arcangelo Corelli, and the architect Baldassare Peruzzi. After Italian unification, the first two kings were buried here: Victor Emmanuel II, then Umberto I with Queen Margherita. Our guide to what to see puts them in order.
It is a working church. On Saturday at 17:00 and Sunday at 10:30 there is Mass: those who attend enter for free, but there is no sightseeing, and the ticket office closes one hour before. On the first Sunday of the month, entry is free for everyone, collecting the ticket on site. At the entrance, they ask for covered shoulders and no very short shorts. The rest can be found in the guide to the free Pantheon.
Guides
In-depth guides to the questions everyone asks before booking. All guides.
Tickets and pricesHow much it costs, where to buy, and what each option includes.
Free entryFirst Sunday, under 18, residents, and Mass: who does not pay.
Guided toursLive guide, archaeologist, or walk: what each includes.What to see insideDome, oculus, tombs, and doors: the rotunda tour.
Practical tipsClothing, hours, bags, and rain: before entering.History in briefAgrippa, Hadrian, 609, and the dome that holds up.From the blog
New prices, free Sundays and the year's dates. All articles.
FAQ
Direct answers to the most frequent questions about the Pantheon.
The full-price ticket costs €7 from 1 July 2026 (it was €5 before). The reduced ticket is €2 for EU citizens aged 18 to 25; entry is free for under 18s, residents of the Comune di Roma, and everyone on the first Sunday of the month. On GetYourGuide, the ticket with audio guide starts from $8. All details are in the ticket guide.
Yes. There is a ticket office and totems in the square, open until 18:00, and tickets are sold for time slots until sold out. Online, the official ticket is bought on the Musei Italiani portal, where the monthly calendar opens mid-previous month.
On the first Sunday of every month, by collecting the free ticket on site (that day cannot be booked online). Entry is also free for under 18s, residents of the Comune di Roma, and licensed tour guides. During Mass, entry is free for those attending. See free Pantheon.
Saturday and the eve of holidays at 17:00, Sunday and holidays at 10:30. Ticket sales stop one hour before each service, and sightseeing is not allowed during Mass.
No. The Pantheon states that there are no skip-the-line entry options: everyone enters in their ticket’s time slot. Online offers add extras like an audio guide, a live guide, or free cancellation.
Every day from 9:00 to 19:00, with last entry at 18:30 (18:00 for groups and schools). The ticket office closes at 18:00. Closed on 25 December and 1 January; hours may change for religious celebrations.
Only if they are not too short. The Pantheon is a church: shoulders must be covered, and short shorts, very short skirts, excessive cleavage, or transparent clothing are not allowed. More practical tips are in the visit guide.
The Pantheon has no cloakroom, so everything you bring stays with you during the visit. Travel light, especially if you book a walking tour: some walks do not allow large luggage.
Guided tours last from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours. The app ticket indicates one hour, the best-selling audio guide ticket from one to three hours. The ticket is valid for one entry, in the chosen time slot.
Raphael, with his fiancée Maria Bibbiena beside him, then Annibale Carracci, Arcangelo Corelli, and Baldassare Peruzzi. There are also the kings Victor Emmanuel II and Umberto I and Queen Margherita. We discuss them in what to see.
The oculus, 30 Roman feet wide, is the main light source and has never been closed. When it rains, water really does enter: the floor is sloped by about 30 centimetres towards drains. At Pentecost, the Vigili del Fuoco drop rose petals through it.
No. Entry to the Pantheon is not included in the Roma Pass or Omnia Card: you need a Pantheon ticket.
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