Not every pass includes every sight. Here you see, sight by sight, which pass gets you in and which one leaves it to you.
The Colosseum with the Roman Forum and the Palatine is included outright in the City Pass, the Essentials Pass and the Rome Tourist Card. In the Roma Pass, the 72-hour OMNIA Card and the Explorer Pass it is one of the entries you choose. The 24-hour OMNIA tier does not reach it at all. Whichever route you take, the time slot is compulsory, so see the Colosseum ticket page before you plan the day.
The Vatican Museums with the Sistine Chapel are included in both Turbopass passes and in both OMNIA tiers, and they are a pick in the Explorer Pass. In the Tourist Card they are one half of a choice, the other being the Pantheon. The Roma Pass does not cover them: the Vatican is a separate state, and the city pass stops at its border. That single line decides many trips, and the Vatican ticket page covers the alternative.
Castel Sant'Angelo belongs to the City Pass and is a choice in the Roma Pass, the 72-hour OMNIA Card and the Explorer Pass. The Pantheon, which has charged entry since 2023, sits in both Turbopass passes and is a pick in the Explorer Pass and one half of the Tourist Card choice. The hop-on hop-off bus comes as 48 hours of Big Bus with a Tiber boat in the City Pass, as the open bus in both OMNIA tiers, whose Colosseo stop is suspended, and as one Big Bus day among the Explorer Pass picks. Ostia Antica is included in the City Pass and is a choice in the Roma Pass, the OMNIA Card and the Explorer Pass.
The dome climb at St Peter's is in none of the six. The Borghese Gallery and the Capitoline Museums appear only in the passes that work by choice, never in the two Turbopass packages. Public transport is part of the Roma Pass and the 72-hour OMNIA Card, an add-on with the City Pass and absent everywhere else, with Fiumicino excluded throughout. More on the public transport page.
The Colosseum admits visitors in timed slots and on named tickets, pass or not. The City Pass and the Essentials Pass reserve the Colosseum and Vatican slots at purchase. The Roma Pass leaves the Colosseum booking to you and excludes the arena and the underground. The OMNIA Card reserves each sight through the link on the voucher, the Explorer Pass through its own app after activation, and the Tourist Card fixes every slot at booking. The Borghese Gallery has to be reserved weeks ahead in all cases.
Sight by sight
Included, optional, a choice or not included, for every pass with the same data. The regular single prices sit next to the sights.
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Single tickets
If one sight is all you want, book the single ticket here. Regular gate prices sit next to the best ticket, and each card names the passes that include the sight.
Colosseum, Roman Forum & Palatine Hill
regular ticket price: €18
Single ticket: Colosseum, Roman Forum & Palatine Hill
From €25 4.4 (8,090) Tickets from Tiqets
Book nowIncluded in these passes: OMNIA Vatican & Rome Card, Roma Pass, Rome City Pass, Rome Essentials Pass, Rome Explorer Pass, Rome Tourist Card
Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel
regular ticket price: €20
Single ticket: Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel
From €34.20 4.5 (36,724) Tickets from Tiqets
Book nowIncluded in these passes: OMNIA Vatican & Rome Card, Rome City Pass, Rome Essentials Pass, Rome Explorer Pass, Rome Tourist Card
Castel Sant'Angelo
regular ticket price: €18
Included in these passes: OMNIA Vatican & Rome Card, Roma Pass, Rome City Pass, Rome Explorer Pass
Pantheon
regular ticket price: €7
Included in these passes: Rome City Pass, Rome Essentials Pass, Rome Explorer Pass, Rome Tourist Card
Borghese Gallery
regular ticket price: €18
Included in these passes: OMNIA Vatican & Rome Card, Roma Pass, Rome Explorer Pass
Hop-on Hop-off bus Rome
regular ticket price: €32
Included in these passes: OMNIA Vatican & Rome Card, Rome City Pass, Rome Explorer Pass
The passes
All six Rome passes with validity and current starting price. The pass page has the full list of inclusions; the booking button takes you straight to the issuer.
Components with fixed time slots (Colosseum + Sistine Chapel or Pantheon + audio guide app), not a day pass
The dome climb at St Peter's Basilica. The City Pass covers entry to the basilica with an audio guide and the OMNIA Card the audio guide alone, but the climb is a separate ticket everywhere.
For the Colosseum, yes. The pass replaces the ticket, not the time slot. The two Turbopass passes settle the slot with the purchase, the Roma Pass leaves the online booking to you, and the Borghese Gallery has to be reserved weeks ahead whatever you hold.
Only as a choice in the Roma Pass, in the 72-hour OMNIA Card and in the Explorer Pass. The two Turbopass passes and the Tourist Card stop before it.
Open the pass that covers your list: its page shows every inclusion and the way to book.
