Florence Duomo Tickets

Reduced fares on Duomo tickets in Florence work by age, not by student status, with one exception at the ticket office. The figures below are the Opera del Duomo's price list of 28 August 2026, full fare first, then ages 7–14, then the guided visits that are sold separately from the passes.

The student fare is the one people miss. Students of any age pay €5 for the Ghiberti Pass with a student card, and you can only get it at the ticket office at Piazza San Giovanni 7, not online and not on the Brunelleschi or Giotto passes. So a student who wants the dome pays the full €30.

EU-citizen reductions of the kind the Uffizi offers do not exist here. Free days: none stated on the portal. ICOM members enter the museum free, and that is the whole list.

A pass is valid 3 calendar days from the slot date, and calendar is the word to hold onto: a Brunelleschi Pass with a dome slot on Friday covers Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and expires Sunday at closing whether you used it or not. Buy for the first day you want to be on the square, not the last.

One monument on each pass carries the booked time. On the Brunelleschi Pass it is the dome, on the Giotto Pass the Bell Tower, on the Ghiberti Pass the crypt of Santa Reparata. You pick that time when you buy, and it is the only fixed appointment. The other monuments on the pass you enter at any time within the 3 days, during their hours, with one access per monument: leave the museum for lunch and you cannot come back in.

The Brunelleschi Pass includes the dome, Giotto's Bell Tower, the Baptistery, the Opera del Duomo Museum and Santa Reparata. The Giotto Pass is the same list without the dome. The Ghiberti Pass is the Baptistery, the museum and Santa Reparata; there is also an on-site variant sold only at the ticket office that covers the museum and Baptistery. Every pass gets you into the cathedral nave through the reserved entrance. Hours differ per monument and the hours for every monument of the complex are tabled on the attraction page.

Which pass for which visitor

• You want the view from the top and can manage 463 steps with no lift: Brunelleschi Pass, or a dome-climb ticket with the 3-day pass when the portal is sold out.
• You want a climb with rest stops and a photo of the dome: Giotto Pass, tower slot. Note the 2026 restoration scaffolding on the tower.
• You are not climbing: Ghiberti Pass at €15, and the €5 student version at the office.
• You want someone to explain the doors and the Pietà before the climb: the guided Duomo and dome climb includes the pass.
• You are in Florence on a Sunday only: the nave is closed to visitors, the dome opens at 12:45, the Baptistery closes 13:30 on first Sundays. Book the dome for the afternoon.

The official portal is the cheapest way to buy Florence Duomo tickets and it sells the same pass the resellers do. At €30 for the Brunelleschi Pass against $61.77 for the cheapest reseller ticket, the portal wins whenever it has your date. Buy there first.

The reseller listings win in three cases. First, availability: they hold their own allocation of dome slots, so when tickets.duomo.firenze.it shows a grey calendar for your week, the dome-climb ticket with the 3-day pass often still has mornings. Second, cancellation: the official pass cannot be changed or refunded, while every card on this page cancels free up to 24 hours before. If your Florence dates are not certain, that alone is worth the difference. Third, extras: the audio app, and on the guided listings compared here a person who takes you through the museum and the Baptistery before the climb.

One phrase to decode. Listings say 'skip the ticket line', and that is accurate: you do not queue at Piazza San Giovanni 7. It does not mean skipping the security check at the dome door, which takes 15–30 minutes when slots bunch up. No official skip-the-line product exists, because the Opera del Duomo has no line to skip: every pass holder walks up at a booked time.

The portal is tickets.duomo.firenze.it, in English, and the whole purchase takes five minutes if you know the traps.

• Open the Passes page and pick Brunelleschi, Giotto or Ghiberti. There is no single-monument ticket and no 'skip the line' ticket to look for.
• Choose the date. The calendar shows the sale window; on 28 August 2026 it ran to 2 January for the Brunelleschi Pass and to 31 December for the other two. Dates beyond that open later.
• Choose the time slot for the monument that carries it: dome, tower or crypt. This is the moment to check the day of week, because the dome's last slot is 18:45 Monday to Friday, 16:30 on Saturday, and Sunday runs 12:45–16:30.
• Enter one name per ticket. Names and ID are checked at the dome. A ticket in your partner's name will not get you up.
• Add the reduced fares for ages 7–14 and free tickets for under 7 as separate lines; a child without a ticket is refused.
• Pay. Maximum 10 tickets per order. A presale fee is not stated; the price you see is the price.
• Keep the PDF on your phone. There is nothing to collect at the office.

Before you press pay

The slot cannot be changed or cancelled after payment; there is no refund for a missed dome. 5 minutes of lateness is tolerated at the dome door, after which the slot lapses. Minors under 18 climb only with an adult. Luggage and large bags go to storage at Piazza Duomo 38/r first.

Dress code in the cathedral and the Baptistery: no bare shoulders, knees covered, no flip-flops. If any of those is a problem for your group, the reseller tickets with free cancellation are the safer purchase.

A dome climb ticket is a Brunelleschi Pass with a slot, and nothing else sells the climb. The climb is 463 steps, no lift, up a staircase between the two shells of the dome; the Opera advises against it for heart or respiratory conditions, vertigo, claustrophobia and pregnancy, and under-18s climb only with an adult. Official time needed is about 45 minutes, plus the security check at the door. If you want to know what the 463 steps are like before you commit €30, the attraction page walks the route.

Dome hours by day: Monday to Friday last slot 18:45, Saturday 8:15–16:30, Sunday and holidays 12:45–16:30. The dome is closed 16–20 November 2026 for maintenance; a Brunelleschi Pass for those dates is not sold. Morning slots sell first, and in spring and autumn Saturday mornings disappear from the portal weeks ahead. The reseller dome-climb ticket with the 3-day pass and its twin at $62.09 are what you buy when that happens.

There is no separate bell tower ticket either. Giotto's Bell Tower is on the Giotto Pass at €20 and on the Brunelleschi Pass at €30; on the Giotto Pass it is the monument that carries your booked slot. The climb is 414 steps, no lift, with three terraces to rest on, and it is open daily 8:15–18:45.

In 2026 the tower is under major restoration: the terraces stay open, views are partly reduced by scaffolding, and the Opera states this on the product page, so decide with that in mind. The tower is closed 9–13 November 2026. Ages 7–14 pay €7 on the Giotto Pass, under 7 climb free with an adult.

The cathedral, yes. You enter the nave of Santa Maria del Fiore without any ticket Monday to Saturday 10:15–15:45; on Sundays and religious celebrations it is closed to visitors. The only paid way into the nave itself is the Opera's guided cathedral tour at €17 (about $20), €7 for ages 7–14, free under 7. Everything else on the square is paid: dome, tower, Baptistery, museum and crypt come only with a pass.

Two things people hope for and do not get. The Firenzecard does not include the Duomo complex; the passes are absent from its museum list, so budget for them on top of the card. And free days: none stated on the official portal, unlike the state museums' first Sundays.

Five lines for planning a slot; the full table with every closure is on the attraction page.

• Cathedral nave: Monday to Saturday 10:15–15:45, free; Sunday closed to visitors.
• Dome: Monday to Friday to 18:45, Saturday to 16:30, Sunday 12:45–16:30; closed 16–20 November 2026.
• Bell Tower: daily 8:15–18:45; closed 9–13 November 2026.
• Baptistery daily 8:30–19:30 (13:30 on first Sundays); museum daily 8:30–19:00, closed first Tuesday; crypt Monday to Saturday 10:15–16:00.
• Ticket office, Piazza San Giovanni 7: Monday to Saturday 8:00–19:15, Sunday 10:15–17:45.

The Baptistery's vault mosaics are under restoration and not visible, which removes the main reason to go inside; the bronze doors are copies with the originals in the museum. And the Bell Tower restoration reduces the views from its terraces through 2026. Both facts are stated on the Opera's portal.

If your reason for the Giotto Pass was the Baptistery ceiling and the tower view, the Ghiberti Pass plus the museum, where the real doors and the Pietà are, gives you more for €15.

The Duomo pass covers one square. The two museums most people pair with it sell their own timed entries with their own rules: the Uffizi tickets at €25 same-day and €29 in advance, and the Accademia tickets at €20 plus a €4 reservation fee for Michelangelo's David. Both are closed on Mondays, which is when the Duomo complex is open and quiet.

The day one of the three-day plan strings the three together with walk minutes. For the rest of the city's ticket rules in one place, start from the Florence city guide.

The office at Piazza San Giovanni 7 sells the same three passes at the same prices, Monday to Saturday 8:00–19:15 and Sunday 10:15–17:45, and it is the only place for three things: the €5 student Ghiberti Pass, the on-site Ghiberti variant for the museum and Baptistery, and a same-day slot when a cancellation has freed one, which happens less often than the queue outside hopes. Card and cash are both taken.

What the office cannot do is bend the rules. A slot bought at the counter is as fixed as one bought online; the staff will not swap a dome time because the line took longer than expected. On a weekday in August the counter line is a half hour by 10:00, so if you have decided on a pass, decide it at the hotel the night before and arrive with the PDF. If the portal has no dome slots for your dates, the counter will not have them either; that is the moment for the dome ticket with WhatsApp support or its cheaper twin, both of which hold their own allocation.

What to bring to the door

• The ticket PDF on a phone or printed; there is no collection desk.
• ID for every named adult on a dome slot; the check is at the Porta della Mandorla, not at the office.
• A child's proof of age for the 7–14 and under-7 fares if asked.
• Nothing bigger than a daypack; luggage goes to Piazza Duomo 38/r first, and that costs time you do not have with a fixed slot.
• Shoulders and knees covered for the cathedral and the Baptistery; the tower and dome doors do not check clothing, the nave door does.

Children under 7 enter every monument free but still need a zero-priced ticket on the order, and under-18s climb the dome only with an adult on the same slot. Ages 7–14 pay €12 on the Brunelleschi Pass, €7 on the Giotto and €5 on the Ghiberti, which makes a family of four with two children €84 (about $98) for the full pass and €40 (about $47) for the no-climb one. There is no family ticket and no EU youth fare of the kind the state museums offer; a 16-year-old pays the adult €30.

The climb itself is the family question. 463 steps with no way to turn round means a child who freezes on the interior gallery has to be walked up, not down, and the Opera's own advice against claustrophobia is written with that passage in mind. Families who want the view with an escape route take the bell tower on the Giotto Pass: 414 steps, three terraces, and a landing every hundred steps where a small climber can sit.

Groups hit the 10 tickets per order cap on the portal; a party of twelve places two orders and lands two separate dome slots, which the system will not merge. Guided group visits go through the Opera's own tours: the guided cathedral tour at €17, the guided dome at €50 and the Baptistery and museum tour at €25, each with a 7–14 fare, all booked on the same portal. The reseller guided dome climb with the museum tour runs at 12:00, 15:45 and 16:30 with headsets, which for a family of non-Italian speakers is the easier version of the same day.

Each of these ends the same way, with a €30 pass that cannot be refunded. The reseller tickets on this page cancel free up to 24 hours before, which is the only cure once the slot is bought.

• Buying the Giotto Pass for the dome. The name confuses everyone; Giotto is the tower, Brunelleschi is the dome, and no upgrade exists at the door.
• Booking the slot for the last day of a stay. The pass runs 3 calendar days from the slot date, so a dome on the departure morning leaves the other four monuments unused.
• Arriving at the ticket office instead of the Porta della Mandorla. The office is across the square; the dome queue is on the north side of the cathedral. Ten minutes lost there is twice the tolerance.
• Putting one name on four tickets. Names and ID are checked at the dome, and a family with a single named adult on every ticket is sent back to the portal.
• Trusting the November calendar. The dome is closed 16–20 November 2026 and the bell tower 9–13 November 2026; a trip that week needs the Ghiberti Pass and the museum, or a date change.