About The Last Supper Tickets
I am Giulia Ferrari and this is my independent guide to getting in to see Leonardo’s Cenacolo in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie. To be plain about what this site is not: not the museum, not the Ministero della Cultura, not Vivaticket and not a tour operator. I sell no tickets of any kind. What I do is explain how the booking system works, and compare the six tours that hold allocation when official tickets are gone.
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. This site is here so you know that in advance.
The thing this site is actually about
The official ticket is real and inexpensive, though it is hard to get. 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 a very short window. 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.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.The six write-ups are at the reviews, and whether it is worth doing is covered 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.
Frequently asked questions
Are you the museum or a ticket seller?
Neither. I am an independent writer who guided in Milan for six years. This site has no connection to Santa Maria delle Grazie, the Ministero della Cultura or Vivaticket, I cannot sell or reserve an official ticket, and tour bookings happen on GetYourGuide.
Why does the site keep telling me to try the official site first?
Because the official ticket is €15 and tours cost several times that, so it is the natural first place to check. How the quarterly release works is set out at the official ticket page, and what to do when it is gone at the sold-out page.
Can I buy a Last Supper ticket from you?
No. Official tickets come from Vivaticket alone and reservation is compulsory for every ticket type. The tours listed here include the entrance ticket and are booked through GetYourGuide; all six are compared at all tours.