Pantheon Tickets in Rome: €7 Price, Free Entry and Booking

Ticket prices and who pays what

The Pantheon is run jointly by the Ministry of Culture and the Diocese of Rome. A new agreement signed on 10 April 2026 raised the full ticket from €5 to €7 from 1 July 2026 and kept the existing reductions, according to the Ministry's press release. The release says the extra €2 per ticket funds local libraries, and gives about 4.5 million visitors in 2025, which explains the queues.

Prices are from the Direzione Musei nazionali della città di Roma, which manages the monument. The €2 rate is the Ministry's national youth price for EU citizens aged 18 to 25, and the Direzione says it is valid up to and including the day of your 25th birthday. The same national rules let citizens of non-EU countries use it only where there is reciprocity. Plan on €7 if you are not an EU citizen.

For two adults with children aged 16 and 20, all EU citizens, the total is €16: €7 + €7 + €2, with the 16-year-old free. The same family from outside the EU would normally pay €21.

How to book, and whether you need to

The Direzione's page names only three official channels: the Musei Italiani website, the Musei Italiani app, and the cash desks and automatic machines at the Pantheon. It warns that tickets from unofficial resellers may not get you in. A higher-priced package bought elsewhere does not buy faster entry either: the Pantheon has no skip-the-line option and visitors go in in order of arrival.

The Ministry's Pantheon page lists booking as optional. Tickets are sold in time slots between 9:00 and 18:00, each limited to 1,200 people. Booking does not shorten the line, but it fixes your slot and spares you the ticket-desk queue when your day is tight.

The monthly calendar opens around the middle of the previous month, so November slots go on sale in mid-October. Desks on site accept cash or electronic payment.

Hours, Mass and the free first Sunday

The Pantheon opens daily from 9:00 to 19:00. Desks close at 18:00, the last individual entry is 18:30 and the last group or school entry 18:00. It is closed on 25 December and 1 January unless the Ministry sets a special opening.

Because it is also a church, Mass changes access. Mass is at 17:00 on Saturdays and the day before a public holiday, and at 10:30 on Sundays and public holidays. During Mass and other services entry is free for worship, ticket sales stop one hour before each service, and the Ministry page says access during celebrations is limited to worshippers. In practice, ticket sales stop at 16:00 on Saturdays and at 9:30 on Sunday mornings, so those are the worst times to arrive planning to buy on the spot.

On the first Sunday of the month (the next two are 1 November and 6 December 2026), no tickets can be booked online. Everyone joins one queue to collect a free, unnamed ticket at the entrance, and the Ministry notes that these days are very crowded and the free ticket gives no priority. If your time in Rome is short, a paid weekday slot is the safer choice.

Getting in: entrance, access and rules

The Pantheon is at Piazza della Rotonda. Step-free access for visitors with disabilities or reduced mobility is by the external ramp on the Via della Minerva side. There is no cloakroom, so carry only what you are happy to keep with you.

Inside, the visitor rules ask you to respect the place of worship. You may use your phone for photos and video, but not for calls, smoking (including e-cigarettes) is banned, and professional photo equipment needs permission. The Direzione's page also asks for silence and says groups larger than six must use radio or whisper headsets.

If the Trevi Fountain is on the same walk, it charges its own fee for the basin-side area: see the Trevi Fountain ticket. For bus fares and contactless payment, see Rome metro and bus tickets. If you are juggling several timed tickets, the Colosseum's are named and checked against ID too: see what each Colosseum ticket covers.