Rome

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Sights and museums

Chaotic, fascinating, exhausting and stunning, Rome is a sight in itself. On a cloud-free day with a hint of summer in the air, and with a good vantage point from a well-placed curb-side café table, you could be forgiven for wondering why anyone would want to trade this for a dutiful traipse around a museum or archaeological site.

 

Multi-entrance tickets
Rome continues to offer a large and bewilderingly complicated array of discounted tickets, although the Roma Pass has done much to simplify matters.

 

Visitors who have already ‘done’ the Galleria Borghese are entitled to a discount if they visit the Galleria Doria Pamphili within five days. Show your ticket and you’ll be charged €5.70 instead of €8.

Another option is the go.card, which offers hefty discounts at many of Rome’s major sights, as well as shops, cinemas, galleries, museums, pubs and more. The card is available to anyone aged 14-26, and is valid for one year. As this guide went to press, prices and terms were being reorganised, and the go.card was becoming part of a Europe-wide discount network for under-26s. For latest updates, consult www.go.card.org.

The following tickets can be bought (cash only) at any of the museums and archaeological sites involved or at the APT, where a €1.50 booking fee is charged. Booking is also possible online or by phone through the Pierreci agency (06 3996 7700, www.pierreci.it). Reductions apply to EU citizens aged between 18 and 25; under-18s enter free.

 

Archeologia Card (€20, €10 concessions, valid 7 days) covers the Colosseum, Palatine, Baths of Caracalla, Palazzo Altemps, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Baths of Diocletian, Crypta Balbi and Tomb of Cecilia Metella.

 

Museo Nazionale Romano Card (€6, €3 concessions, valid 3 days) covers Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Baths of Diocletian, Palazzo Altemps and Crypta Balbi.

 

Appia Card (€6, €3 concessions, valid 7 days) covers both the Baths of Caracalla and the Tomb of Cecilia Metella.

 

Capitolini Card (€8.50, €6.50 concessions, valid 7 days) covers the Capitoline Museums and Centrale Montemartini.

 

Booking
Booking is mandatory for the Domus Aurea and the Galleria Borghese, though if you turn up midweek in low season, there’s little chance of being turned away.

 

Booking is possible for many other sites and museums, but getting through to reservation phonelines can be difficult. Booking agencies for Rome’s major sights are the Pierreci agency (06 3996 7700, www.pierreci.it) and Ticketeria (06 32 810, www.ticketeria.it). They add a booking fee to ticket prices.

Tours
The Enjoy Rome agency organises walking tours of the city.For hop-on, hop-off bus tours around most of Rome’s major sights, the 110 Open (06 4695 2252, www.tram busopen.com) leaves from bay D in the square in front of the Termini railway station every 15 minutes through the day. This can be combined with the Archeobus service along the Appian Way.

 

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