About The Last Supper Tickets

Who I am

I guided in Milan for six years before I started writing this, and I have stood in that refectory more times than I could count. What I mostly remember is not the wall. It is the faces of people working out, at about the eleven-minute mark, that fifteen minutes means fifteen minutes. They had pictured an afternoon in a gallery. They had a quarter of an hour in a former dining hall, sharing it with up to forty strangers, and then a door opened and that was the visit. Nobody had told them. Somebody should have, and it may as well be me.

The thing this site is actually about

The official ticket is real, it is cheap, and you probably cannot buy one. It is currently €15 with no booking fee, sold only by Vivaticket for the Cenacolo Vinciano, and reservation is compulsory for every ticket type including the free ones. It is released quarterly and it sells out almost immediately after each release — not “books up early”, but gone, three months at a time, in the sort of window you miss by making a cup of coffee. I earn nothing from that ticket, which is exactly why I can tell you to go and try for it before you read another word here. The mechanics are on the official ticket page.

When the window is shut, and for most people planning a normal trip it is shut, the practical route in is a tour that holds allocation. Every one of the six on this site includes the entrance ticket, and the cheapest of them costs about four times face value. I call that a gap rather than a bargain, because it is one. What the money buys is access plus somebody who can explain a painting you get fifteen minutes with. That argument, laid out with the numbers, is at ticket prices and the sold-out page.

How I write about the tours

Ratings, review counts and prices come straight from GetYourGuide and are not rounded or tidied. Every price is a “from” figure that the booking widget re-prices by date, party size and option. I never name the operator behind a listing. I do name guides, because the reviewers name them almost without exception, and that pattern is the most useful thing in the whole review set. Where the material is thin I say so rather than padding it out with people who do not exist. The six write-ups are at the reviews, and the honest case for whether any of it is worth doing is at is it worth it.

Corrections

Prices change, opening arrangements change, and a figure that is right this morning may not be right next spring. Confirm the official price and the release dates with Vivaticket, and tour details with the booking page, before you travel. If something here has drifted, tell me at contact and I will fix it.

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