Capuchin Crypts Entry Tickets

Your experience begins at Piazza Barberini

Arrive at Piazza Barberini, 00187 Rome, RM, Italy, in front of the Fontana del Tritone, and exchange your voucher for your Capuchin Crypts entry ticket. Once you have your ticket in hand, you’ll make your way toward the entrance, ready to explore independently.

Enter the Capuchin church and museum spaces

With your ticket scanned, step into the quiet interior of the Capuchin complex. Introductory displays and artifacts give you context about the Capuchin order, their centuries of life in Rome, and why these underground chapels were created.

Walk through the first crypt chapels

Continue your exploration into the first bone-decorated chapels, where skulls and vertebrae form arches, patterns, and simple symbols. As you move along the narrow corridor, read the posted explanations that connect these arrangements to themes of faith, humility, and mortality.

Pause in the most intricate bone chapel

Further inside, you reach one of the most elaborate spaces, where chandeliers, altars, and wall designs are all shaped from Capuchin friars’ bones. Take your time to notice the details, reflect on the lives behind these remains, and absorb the unusual stillness of the crypt.

Your self-guided visit finishes as you exit the crypts

After roughly an hour underground, follow the route back toward the exit of the Capuchin Crypts. Step out into the streets of Rome with a vivid memory of this stark site that few visitors forget.