Pantheon Tickets 2026: Price, Opening Hours, Mass Times & How to Visit

Updated on November 1, 2026 · Prices, opening hours and booking rules checked on the official Ministry of Culture and Pantheon ticketing pages on November 1, 2026.

Pantheon tickets cost €7 (since July 1, 2026), €2 for EU citizens aged 18–25 and nothing for under-18s and residents of Rome. Booking a time slot on the official museiitaliani.it portal is optional but wise at weekends. The Pantheon is open daily from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM (last entry 6:30 PM), except during Mass.

Cover photo: Nicholas Hartmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Pantheon is the best-preserved building of ancient Rome and still a working church. Since 2023 it has had a ticket, and since 2026 named tickets and new prices. We are a Rome tour operator: since 2012 our golf carts and vintage Fiat 500s have stopped in Piazza della Rotonda every day, and this guide sums up what you need to know before you go in.

Pantheon tickets at a glance

How much does a Pantheon ticket cost?

A full ticket costs €7. The price went up from €5 on July 1, 2026, so older guides and blog posts still show the old figure.

• €2 reduced ticket: for EU citizens aged 18 to 25, with ID. Visitors from outside the EU pay the full price.
• Free: under 18s, residents of the city of Rome, visitors with disabilities and one companion, licensed tour guides and a few other categories set by the Ministry of Culture.
• Worship: entry for Mass is always free (see below).

There are no combined tickets: the Pantheon is not part of the Roma Pass or of any combo with other sights.

Do you need to book Pantheon tickets?

Booking is optional, but it saves time. The official online shop is the Ministry of Culture’s museiitaliani.it portal, which you can use as a guest. How it works:

• Time slots: you book a one-hour slot, from 9:00–10:00 AM to 5:00–6:00 PM, plus a last half-hour slot to 6:30 PM.
• When tickets go on sale: around the middle of the previous month. In late October, November was on sale and December was not yet open.
• Named tickets: each ticket carries the visitor’s name, is valid only on the day you chose, and you need ID to enter. You can change the name once, at least 72 hours before your visit.
• Which slots sell out: weekend mornings go first. Weekday mornings and late afternoons are easier.
• On the day: the ticket office and the ticket machines at the entrance sell tickets on the day, even when the online slots are sold out. The ticket office is open 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM.

There is no official “skip-the-line” ticket for the Pantheon, so be wary of websites selling one. Groups of 10 or more need a licensed guide.

Pantheon opening hours and Mass times

The Pantheon is open every day from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM, last entry 6:30 PM, all year round. It is a consecrated church, the Basilica of Santa Maria ad Martyres, so visits stop during services.

• Entry for Mass is free, but only worshippers are admitted while the service is on: you cannot walk around or take photos.
• Ticket sales stop an hour before each service.
• Christmas and New Year: the Pantheon is closed to visitors on December 25 and January 1. On January 1, 2026 the Ministry opened it from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM by a decree issued a week before, so check the official site in late December. The basilica’s Christmas services are listed on pantheonroma.org.

Is the Pantheon free on the first Sunday of the month?

Yes. On the first Sunday of every month entry is free and cannot be booked: everyone joins a single queue at the entrance for a free ticket, and queues are long. The same applies on a few national holidays, such as November 4. Remember the 10:30 AM Sunday Mass: arrive at opening time or in the afternoon.

What should you wear, and what are the rules?

The Pantheon is a church, and the dress code is enforced at the door:

• Cover your shoulders. No very short shorts or skirts, low necklines or see-through clothes. Staff can refuse entry, so carry a scarf in summer.
• No food, drinks or smoking inside, including e-cigarettes. Keep phone calls outside.
• Photos and videos with your phone are fine. Professional shoots need a permit.
• No cloakroom, so travel light. Dogs are not allowed, except guide and assistance dogs.
• Wheelchair access: a ramp on the Via della Minerva side, to the left of the portico.
• Toilets: do not count on finding any inside. Use a café on the square, or the public toilets around Largo di Torre Argentina.

What is there to see inside the Pantheon?

Most visits take 20 to 30 minutes, but look carefully: everything here is about proportion and light.

• The dome. About 43.3 meters (142 feet) across, exactly as high as it is wide, so a perfect sphere would fit inside the rotunda. Almost 1,900 years after it was built, it is still the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world. The five rings of coffers, 28 per ring, make it lighter, in weight and to the eye.
• The oculus. The only window: an open circle almost 9 meters (about 30 feet) wide at the top of the dome. A disc of sunlight moves across the walls during the day. When it rains, the rain falls straight onto the floor, which slopes gently towards 22 small drains. The marble can be slippery. For more ideas for a wet day, see what to do in Rome when it rains.
• The tombs. Raphael, the Renaissance painter, was buried here in 1520 at his own request. Two kings of Italy lie here too: Vittorio Emanuele II, and Umberto I with Queen Margherita, the queen the pizza Margherita is said to be named after. So do the painter Annibale Carracci and the composer Arcangelo Corelli.
• The portico. The 16 granite columns that hold up the porch were quarried in Egypt. The inscription above them still credits Marcus Agrippa, who built the first temple here.

Rose petals at Pentecost: every year on Pentecost Sunday, Rome’s firefighters drop thousands of red rose petals through the oculus at the end of the 10:30 AM Mass. In 2027 Pentecost falls on May 16. Entry stops when the basilica is full, so arrive well before 9:00 AM.

Can you take a guided tour or an audio guide?

• “Oltre il Pantheon” (Beyond the Pantheon): a 45-minute guided visit, in Italian or English, to the ancient spaces behind the rotunda. It costs €10 on top of the €7 ticket (free for under-18s). Groups are of up to 25, and booking is required on the same museiitaliani.it portal. It runs every day except first Sundays.
• Audio guide and tours of the basilica: the Chapter that runs the church sells an official audio guide (€17) and guided tours in English (€27.50), both with entry included, on pantheonroma.com.

On your own, read the inscription on the portico, then walk to the center of the rotunda and look up before you look at anything else.

How do you get to the Pantheon?

The Pantheon stands on Piazza della Rotonda, in the heart of the historic center, between Piazza Navona and the Trevi Fountain. There is no metro station nearby:

• By bus: lines 30, 40, 62, 64, 81, 87 and 492 stop at Largo di Torre Argentina, a 5-minute walk away.
• By metro: Spagna and Barberini on line A are about a 15-minute walk away.
• On foot: 5 minutes from Piazza Navona, 10 from the Trevi Fountain and about 25 minutes from the Colosseum.

The streets around the Pantheon are pedestrian or restricted to traffic, which is where an electric golf cart or a small vintage car helps. On our private golf cart tour of Rome your driver picks you up at your hotel and takes you to the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps, which you see from the outside. On the 3-hour tour there is time for a gelato or a coffee near the Pantheon. It costs from €350 for 1–3 people (2 hours, November to mid-April) and €450 for 1–3 people (3 hours), and up to 21 guests are guaranteed (on the 2-hour tour the maximum depends on the start time), with larger groups on request. For shared and shorter rides, see all our golf cart tours in Rome. Our Dolce Vita tour in a vintage Fiat 500 covers the same landmarks from an electric cabrio, from €590 for 1–3 people. If you want to go inside the Pantheon too, we can add entry tickets on request, subject to availability. See all our vintage Fiat 500 tours in Rome.

Film fans can follow Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck to Piazza della Minerva and the Pantheon on our Roman Holiday tour, from €690 for 1–3 people.

For the outside story of the Pantheon and its square, the free Nemo audio guide app has it on its free 90-minute route, which you can follow on your own or ride on our 90-minute golf cart tour.

A short history of the Pantheon

• 27–25 BC: Marcus Agrippa, Augustus’s right-hand man, builds the first temple, which later burns down.
• About AD 118–125: Emperor Hadrian rebuilds it in the form you see today, possibly to a project begun under Trajan. He keeps Agrippa’s name on the front.
• AD 609: the Byzantine emperor Phocas gives the building to Pope Boniface IV, who consecrates it as the church of Santa Maria ad Martyres. Its use as a church is the main reason it survived the Middle Ages almost intact.
• 1625: Pope Urban VIII Barberini strips the bronze from the portico ceiling. Romans joked: “What the barbarians did not do, the Barberini did.”
• 1878: Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of united Italy, is buried here, and the Pantheon becomes the resting place of the Italian royal family.