Villa Adriana and Villa d'Este: the €30 pass

The VILLÆ Pass costs €30 and covers Villa Adriana, Villa d'Este and the Sanctuary of Hercules the Victor for 72 hours from first entry (on sale since June 23, 2026).

€30, 72 hours, 3 sites

Since June 23, 2026 Tivoli has sold two integrated tickets, and the first is the VILLÆ Pass at €30, or €4 for visitors aged 18 to 25. Prices are in euros.

It runs 72 hours from first entry and admits you to Villa Adriana, Villa d'Este and the Sanctuary of Hercules the Victor.

72 hours is generous for a pass of this kind. It turns Tivoli from a rushed day out of Rome into two half days, which is closer to what the two sites actually need.

The annual card at €40

The second title is VILLÆ 365¹, at €40, or €10 for 18 to 25s, valid 12 months from first use and issued in your name.

The gap between the two is €10. Anyone coming back to Tivoli even once in the year, or anyone staying nearby for a week, is better off with the annual card than with the 72-hour pass.

Villa d'Este opens at 2 pm on Monday

On Mondays Villa d'Este opens at 2 pm and not in the morning, against 8:30 am on every other day.

Closing moves with the season, from 5 pm in winter to 7:30 pm in summer, and the villa shuts on January 1 and December 25 (2026).

That Monday rule is the one that ruins day trips from Rome. A Monday morning train to Tivoli buys you a garden with a locked gate until the afternoon.

The 5 free dates at Villa d'Este

Entry costs nothing on the first Sunday of every month, on April 25, June 2 and November 4, and on March 8 for women.

Those are the dates published by the institute itself. Free days at a site with famous fountains are the fullest days of the calendar, which is a reason to choose them deliberately rather than by accident.

Villa Adriana: 120 hectares, 40 of them open

Hadrian built the villa between 118³ and 138³ AD and it covered at least 120³ hectares, of which 40 are open to visitors today. It went onto the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1999.

Inside that area: residential buildings, baths, nymphaea, pavilions, gardens and an underground network of service routes.

40 hectares is a long walk with little shade, and the underground routes are the part people miss because they read it as one monument rather than a small town.

The single ticket prices are not published

3 sites are covered by the pass, and the prices of the individual tickets for Villa Adriana and Villa d'Este are not published on the institutional pages.

The ticketing platform showed only a partial list when we checked. So this page prints the two pass prices, which are official, and nothing else. If you only want one villa, check villae.midaticket.com before assuming the €30 pass is your only route.

The date we could not confirm

1 figure here rests on secondary sources: the 2001 UNESCO inscription of Villa d'Este.

whc.unesco.org returns 403² to every automated request, so neither that year nor the 1999 date for Villa Adriana could be checked against the World Heritage listing itself. The 1999 date is corroborated by the official Italian pages; the 2001 one is the weakest link on this page, and it is flagged rather than smoothed over. For the region, see Lazio.

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