Organise your visit
The monumental complex of Santa Croce welcomes thousands of visitors every year who flock to discover its immense historical and artistic heritage. On this page you can consult all the information useful to plan your visit: from opening hours to ticket prices, as well as facilities for visitors with disabilities and indications for groups.
Opening Times
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday No further admission after 5.00 pm | 9.30 am – 5.30 pm |
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Sunday and Religious Holidays Epiphany (6 January), Assumption (15 August), All Saints (1 November), Immaculate Conception (8 December). | 1.00 pm – 5.30 pm |
Holiday Closure New Year's Day (1 January), Easter, Feast of St. Anthony of Padua (13 June), Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (4 October), Christmas Day (25 December) and Boxing Day (26 December) |
Tickets
Tickets can be purchased at the ticket office of the monumental complex or online.
ID must be shown in support of concessions and/or free admission.
To celebrate Santa Croce's reopening to visitors, we have devised special weekend guided tours for only €14.00 per person (€12.00 for concessions and €6.00 for Florentine residents and anyone entitled to free admission).
For further information on the tours, times and how to book, please see the dedicated page on our website.
To help us ensure smooth access and visitor influx compliant with the measures designed to contain the spread of Covid-19, we reccommend you would to book your visit through our on-line ticketing service.
Full price Individual visitors | 8€ |
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Concessions Individual visitors (aged 12–17) | 6€ |
Families Admission free for children under 18 if accompanied by parents paying for admission | 8€ |
Free Children aged 0–11 | |
Audio-guide supplement | 4€ |
Combo ticket for Santa Croce + Opera Duomo Museum + Baptistery For children under 15 the cost is 9€ | 15 € |
Services
Santa Croce has put together a number of visitor aids to make it simpler for you to visit the complex and to offer you a richer visitor experience such as free Wi-Fi points, an audio-guide and our apps offering special themed itineraries. We also have a small on-site bookshop where you'll be able to buy guidebooks and both historical and art history publications.
Groups and Guides
Owing to the anti Covid-19 regulations we allow groups up to a maximum of 30 people (including the guide) and in accordance with the capacity of the entrance time slot.
Tour guides are required to communicate the presence of their group at the entrance and to equip them with radio systems if the group is made up of 5 or more. The rental service for radio-systems in Santa Croce is currently suspended; therefore, groups must be equipped before entrance.
A reduction for groups is envisaged, starting from 15 participants. It is also possible to take advantage of the same reductions and offers applicable to single tickets, by presenting a valid id at the entrance. Guides can access for free by showing their badge.
You can book when purchasing tickets at the monumental Complex ticket office or online at https://ticka.santacroceopera.it/.
In the case of delay your booked slot lapses 15 minutes after the given time.
Starting from July the 12th, the pre-sale charge of € 1 is reintroduced for full and reduced tickets; the other types of ticket (including the reduced group and the combo ticket) remain excluded from the presale charge until 30th September.
Accessibility
Discover our virtual tour on Santa Croce App
How to reach us
The Santa Croce complex is situated in the very heart of Florence, in one of its oldest and most characteristic neighbourhoods. If you arrive by train at Santa Maria Novella station, you can easily reach us on foot via the city's historic centre in about 15 minutes. The visitor entrance and ticket office are situated on the north side of the basilica in Largo Bargellini.
