Royal Palace of Naples tickets: €15, closed on Wednesdays, and the date on the ticket does not bind

💡 The Short Version: The Palazzo Reale costs €15 and is closed on Wednesdays. The ticket covers the state apartments, the Museo della Fabbrica and the Museo Caruso, and the date printed on it is not binding. The Hall of Mirrors and the Hercules Hall are closed from 1 October 2026 for restoration. The hanging garden is €2 extra, the Romantic Garden is free, and the evening openings are €5. The Museo Caruso closes at 14:00. Buy only from the palace’s official channels, listed on its visit page. Or book a tour: the small-group tour with the ticket includedad is from €31.50 (GetYourGuide).

Tickets and prices

Prices are from the palace’s visit information page. Tickets are sold at the desk, on the Musei Italiani website and app, and at the totem, and the palace warns against any other seller.

• The date on the ticket is not binding for the palace and Pignatelli tickets: use them on any day in the normal hours. Tickets are not refundable, except when the museum cancels the visit.
• Groups are limited to 30 people. Dogs are not allowed, except assistance dogs.
• The Campania Artecard counts the palace among its free entries.

Where to buy

GetYourGuide’s prices are its lowest “from” prices. It sells no plain entry ticket.

Tours worth paying for

Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.

Royal Palace and monumental area small-group tour

From €31.50 · 2.5 hours · 4.8 stars from 1,354 reviews

Naples: Royal Palace and Monumental Area Small Group Tourad is run by Askos Tours and includes the ticket, so the guide costs about €16.50 over the €15 entry.

Entry ticket with an audio guide

From €23.50 · 4.2 stars from 245 reviews

Naples: Royal Palace Entry Ticket with Digital Audio Guidead is run by Vox City International and bundles the palace with the Time Gallery and the Museo Caruso. It costs €8.50 above the official €15.

What to see

The palace stands on Piazza del Plebiscito, and its state rooms are the Apartment of Etiquette.

The Royal Palace across Piazza del Plebiscito. Photo: Superchilum, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. The Apartment of Etiquette. The state rooms, about an hour. The throne returned to its room on 10 February 2026 after restoration. From 1 October 2026 the Hall of Mirrors (room XXI), the Hercules Hall (XXII) and part of the Still Life Hall (XIX) are closed, and the route is diverted.
2. The Museo della Fabbrica. Open 9:00 to 19:00, with last entry at 18:30.
3. The Museo Caruso. Open 9:00 to 14:00, with last entry at 13:00. Go to it first, or skip it.
4. The gardens. The hanging garden, for €2, and the Romantic Garden, which is free. The Romantic Garden reopened in April 2026 after a restoration begun in September 2024.

The grand staircase of the Royal Palace. Photo: Armando Mancini, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Allow an hour and a half for the apartments and museums. The order that works: the Museo Caruso before 13:00, the apartments after, and the gardens last. What to skip: the hanging garden on a day with an orange weather alert, when it may be shut.

Next door: Castel Nuovo

Castel Nuovo, also called the Maschio Angioino, is within five minutes’ walk of the palace. It costs €10 and is open Monday to Saturday from 9:00 to 18:00 with last entry at 17:30. It is closed on Sundays and public holidays, and it closes on orange weather alerts. Tickets are sold at the Comune di Napoli’s ticket portal. The visit takes in the first floor with the civic museum and picture gallery, the courtyard, the Hall of the Barons, the archaeological route and the Palatine Chapel. The second and third floors are closed for maintenance. Residents of the metropolitan city pay €6.

Hours and getting there

• Closed: Wednesdays, 1 January and 25 December. The Museo Pignatelli is closed on Tuesdays and the same two dates.
• 4 to 8 November 2026: the Court Theatre and the First Antechamber can be seen only in part, and the palace lists free entry on Wednesday 4 November 2026, the National Unity Day holiday.
• Where: Piazza del Plebiscito 1. The metro stops at Municipio on Lines 1 and 6, and the Molo Beverello ferry terminal is nearby.
• Access: lifts reach the museum and the hanging garden level, and there are no steps on the main floor.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: arriving on a Wednesday, or after 14:00 for the Museo Caruso.

The square and the opera house across it are covered in the Teatro di San Carlo tour guide, and the Lungomare walk takes the palace between Via Toledo and the Borgo Marinari. The Archaeological Museum and Capodimonte are the other state museums on the Artecard list in Campania Artecard: is it worth it?, and 3 days in Naples fits the palace round its Wednesday closure. What to book before you go to Naples lists the closed day of every sight, and Naples walking tours compares the guided options. Where to stay in Naples compares the areas.