Pisa Small-Group Walking Tour of Piazza dei Miracoli with Optional Leaning Tower Ticket

About this experience

• A licensed local guide walks you round the whole square: Baptistery, Cathedral, Camposanto and Tower
• Inside the Cathedral for Giovanni Pisano's marble pulpit and Cimabue's apse mosaic
• Why the Tower leans, and how engineers steadied it while it was closed from 1990 to 2001
• Small group of up to 20 with headsets; add a reserved Tower climb and the other monuments (ages 8+)

What you'll visit

• Piazza dei Miracoli
• Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Pisa Cathedral
• Pisa Baptistery
• Camposanto Monumentale

What you'll do

1. 1Meet by the Sinopie Museum10 minCheck in with your guide in front of the ticket office, collect your headset and get your bearings on the south side of the square.
2. 2The Baptistery15 minOutside Italy's largest baptistery, begun in 1152, where Galileo was baptised: how Diotisalvi's round church took shape, and why the space under its dome is famous for its echo.
3. 3Cathedral façade10 minThe tiers of marble arcades that set the Pisan Romanesque style, built from 1064 when Pisa was one of the great sea powers of the Mediterranean.
4. 4Inside the Cathedral25 minGiovanni Pisano's pulpit, Cimabue's apse mosaic of St John, the tomb of Emperor Henry VII and the lamp behind the Galileo legend.
5. 5The Camposanto10 minAlong the cemetery's long marble wall: the legend of soil shipped from Golgotha, the 1944 fire that wrecked its frescoes and the decades spent restoring them.
6. 6The Leaning Tower20 minThe walk ends at the foot of the Tower, by Bonanno Pisano's bronze Porta di San Ranieri: why it began to lean, how the builders compensated and the works that steadied it. With the Tower option, your slot is about 30 minutes later.

How it works

1. 1Book your date and timeReserve now and pay later: your booking is confirmed at once and we send a secure payment link within 24 hours.
2. 2Meet your guideMeet in front of the Sinopie Museum ticket office on Piazza del Duomo, 15 minutes before the start.
3. 3Show your QR ticketOn your phone at the entrance or meeting point once your booking is paid. No printing needed.

What's included

Know before you go

• Under-18s must be accompanied by an adult. Bring ID for every child.
• The Tower option is for ages 8+ only: every climber must be 8 or older on the day, and babies aren't allowed even in a carrier. With under-8s in your party, book the walk; under-11s enter the other monuments free with an adult at the door.
• Tower option: no bags on the Tower. Use the free cloakroom by the ticket office, be there 15 minutes before your slot and expect a metal detector. Late arrivals lose their slot.
• 251 uneven, slippery steps; the climb isn't advised for heart or muscle conditions.
• During Mass and services, mostly on Sundays and religious holidays, Cathedral visitors are limited to part of the church and guides can't explain.
• Large luggage and suitcases aren't allowed in the monuments; small bags up to 20 × 30 × 38 cm are fine. Dress respectfully for the Cathedral.
• Under-4s go free.

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