# Pisa Cathedral: free, but you still need a ticket

> Entry to the cathedral on Piazza dei Miracoli costs nothing. Any other monument ticket includes it; if it is all you want, collect a timed one on site.

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Last updated: 2026-09-03

Entry to Pisa Cathedral costs nothing, but you still need a slip of paper: any other Piazza dei Miracoli ticket includes a free untimed Duomo ticket, and cathedral-only visitors collect a timed one at the desks on site.

## Free, with two different ways in

The cathedral is free, and the route to the door depends on what else you have bought. Any ticket for another monument on the square comes with a free Duomo ticket that carries no time slot at all.

Visitors who only want the cathedral take the second route: a free timed ticket, issued exclusively at the ticket desks on the square. It isn't sold online, which is the part that catches people who arrive with a phone full of vouchers and no paper.

Free entry with no ticket at all covers visitors with a disability and their companion, and accompanied children under 11. School groups pay €3 for a single monument and €6 for the full visit, and the audio guide at the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo is €5.

## One year of validity, and nobody tells you

Tickets for the Baptistery, the Camposanto, the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo and the Museo delle Sinopie are valid a full year from the date you pick, with no time slot on them. Entry closes 30 minutes before the monuments do.

That rule is unusual and worth planning around. A ticket bought in March still works in October, so a rained-off afternoon in Pisa isn't a wasted ticket, and a stopover between two flights can be split across two trips.

Only [the Leaning Tower](/attractions/torre-di-pisa) works differently: its ticket is timed, and the slot is chosen at the moment of purchase.

## Summer 2026: open to 10:30 pm

From June 17 to August 31, 2026 the monuments on Piazza dei Miracoli stay open to 10:30 pm, and the Camposanto runs a night opening to 10:00 pm (22:30 and 22:00 on Italian signs).

Buy a Tower slot from 7:30 pm onward and a free untimed Camposanto ticket comes with it. That is the cheapest evening on the square, and the grass empties out after the coach groups leave.

Two free evening openings are on the 2026 calendar, July 24 and August 9, from 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm across the Baptistery, the Camposanto, the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo and the Museo delle Sinopie. Booking is compulsory on scopripisa.it. The Camposanto is also free on November 1 and 2.

## The full price list is published as a picture

No readable price list exists for the individual monuments and the combinations: the Opera publishes it only as an image file, so the figures cannot be extracted or quoted with confidence, and this page carries none of them.

That is worth knowing before you compare offers. Resellers retype those numbers by hand and get them wrong, and there is no plain-text official version to check them against.

## Getting to the square without a car

From Pisa Centrale, bus Line 1+ leaves the Stazione 1 stop toward Park Pietrasantina every 10 minutes and drops you at Torre 1. Line 4 runs every 20 minutes from Stazione 8 to Del Parlascio, and night Line 21 every 30 minutes.

From the coach station at Sesta Porta, lines 60, 70, 80, 120 and 130 all stop at Torre 1. Arriving at Galileo Galilei airport, take the PisaMover to Pisa Centrale and pick up one of these buses there.

The walk is also fine, and most people do it: straight up from the station, across the Arno, twenty-odd minutes through a working university town rather than a monument district. The rest of the city is at [Pisa](/towns/pisa).

## FAQ

### Is Pisa Cathedral free to enter?

Yes. Buy a ticket for any other monument on Piazza dei Miracoli and a free untimed Duomo slip comes with it. If the cathedral is the only thing you want, you collect a free timed ticket at the on-site desks, which is not sold online.

### How long is a Pisa monument ticket valid?

One full year from the date you choose, for the Baptistery, the Camposanto, the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo and the Museo delle Sinopie, with no time slot. Only the Leaning Tower ticket is timed, with the slot fixed when you buy.

### How late is Piazza dei Miracoli open in summer 2026?

To 10:30 pm from June 17 to August 31, 2026, with the Camposanto running its own night opening to 10 pm. Buy a Tower slot from 7:30 pm onward and a free untimed Camposanto ticket comes with it.

### Is the Camposanto in Pisa ever free?

Yes, on November 1 and November 2, when entry is open. There are also two free evening openings in 2026, on July 24 and August 9 from 8:30 pm to 11 pm, covering four sites, with booking required on scopripisa.it.

### How do you get from Pisa Centrale to the Leaning Tower?

Bus Line 1+ from the Stazione 1 stop toward Park Pietrasantina, every 10 minutes, to the Torre 1 stop. Line 4 runs every 20 minutes to Del Parlascio and night Line 21 every 30 minutes. From the airport take PisaMover to Pisa Centrale first.

### Who gets into Pisa Cathedral free without any ticket?

Visitors with a disability and their companion, and accompanied children under 11. School groups pay reduced rates of €3 for a single monument and €6 for the full visit, and the Museo dell'Opera audio guide is €5.

## Sources

| Fact | Source | Confidence | Valid until |
|---|---|---|---|
| La visita alla Cattedrale di Pisa e' gratuita: acquistando il biglietto per uno qualsiasi degli altri monumenti di Piazza dei Miracoli si riceve un biglietto gratuito e senza orario per il Duomo. Chi vuole visitare solo la Cattedrale deve invece ritirare un biglietto orario, disponibile esclusivamente alle biglietterie in loco e non online. | [Opera della Primaziale Pisana](https://www.opapisa.it/biglietti/riduzioni-e-gratuita/) | medium | 2027-06-30 |
| A Piazza dei Miracoli di Pisa il biglietto della Torre e' orario e il turno va scelto al momento dell'acquisto, mentre il biglietto per tutti gli altri monumenti e musei (Battistero, Camposanto, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Museo delle Sinopie) e' valido un anno intero a partire dalla data scelta, senza orario. L'ingresso e' consentito fino a 30 minuti prima della chiusura. | [Opera della Primaziale Pisana](https://www.opapisa.it/informazioni/orario/) | medium | 2027-06-30 |
| Nell'estate 2026 i monumenti di Piazza dei Miracoli a Pisa restano aperti fino alle 22:30 dal 17 giugno al 31 agosto; il Camposanto ha apertura notturna fino alle 22:00 e chi acquista un biglietto per la Torre dalle 19:30 in poi riceve un biglietto gratuito e senza orario per il Camposanto. Il Camposanto e' inoltre a ingresso libero il 1 e il 2 novembre. | [Opera della Primaziale Pisana](https://www.opapisa.it/informazioni/orario/) | medium | 2027-06-30 |
| Da Pisa Centrale si raggiunge Piazza dei Miracoli senza auto: dalla fermata Stazione 1 con la Linea 1+ direzione Park Pietrasantina ogni 10 minuti fino alla fermata Torre 1, oppure con la Linea 4 ogni 20 minuti fino a Del Parlascio e di notte con la Linea 21 ogni 30 minuti. Chi arriva all'aeroporto Galileo Galilei prende il PisaMover fino alla stazione centrale e poi uno di questi bus. | [Opera della Primaziale Pisana](https://www.opapisa.it/informazioni/come-arrivare/) | medium | 2027-06-30 |

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