Sansevero Chapel tickets: the Veiled Christ is €12, booked by the half hour, 60 days ahead

💡 The Short Version: You cannot walk in to see the Veiled Christ. Every visit is booked for a 30-minute slot at €12, with online tickets on sale 60 days ahead and a few more released two days before. The ticket works for 10 minutes after the slot and cannot be changed or refunded. Photographs and phones are not allowed, and the chapel is closed on Tuesdays. Book at the museum’s own shop, ticket.museosansevero.it. A “skip the line” ticket only adds a guide. Or book a tour: Vox City’s 35-minute guided visit with the ticketad is from €14, and the three-hour Old Town and Veiled Christ walkad with the ticket is from €47.85 (GetYourGuide).

Tickets and prices

Prices and rules are the museum’s, from its opening hours and fees page and its access page. Searches for the Veiled Christ return sites with the chapel’s name in their web addresses that are not the museum, and a second statue, Jago’s Figlio Velato, is in another church (see the end of this page).

• Slots are every 30 minutes from 9:00. Online tickets go on sale 60 days ahead. Extra tickets are released two days before the visit.
• The ticket is valid for 10 minutes after the time on it, only on its date, and cannot be changed or refunded.
• The desk sells only from the same allocation as the online shop, for groups of up to 9 people, for the same day and the next 7 days.
• The museum runs no guided tours of its own. One guide may take up to 9 people.
• Not allowed: touching the works, photographs, video, mobile phones, food, drink and animals.

Where to buy

GetYourGuide’s prices are its lowest “from” prices. Every version below includes the €12 admission, so the extra is the guide.

There is no skip-the-line

The ticket is for a fixed slot and admissions are capped, so “skip the line” products enter at the same time as everyone else. What they add is a guide, who may lead a group of up to 9 inside.

Tours worth paying for

The tours are about the guide, because the entry ticket is the same one you can buy yourself. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.

Cheapest guided visit

From €14 · 35 minutes · 4.5 stars from 537 reviews

Naples: Sansevero Chapel & the Veiled Christ Guided Tourad is run by Vox City International for a small group, with a guide or an audio guide in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The chapel’s €12 admission is included. Free cancellation.

Old Town walk with the ticket

From €47.85 · 3 hours · 4.9 stars from 1,858 reviews

Naples: Old Town and Veiled Christ Tourad is run by Grand Tour Experience with an art historian as guide. It walks the old town, then enters the chapel by a separate entrance. Free cancellation.

Spaccanapoli walk with the chapel

From €48.47 · 2.5 hours · 4.9 stars from 7,062 reviews

Naples: Downtown Tour with Veiled Christ & St Clare Ticketsad is run by Askos Tours and has the most reviews of the three. It walks Spaccanapoli and its churches and goes into the Cappella Sansevero. The listing says it includes a Santa Chiara cloister ticket on selected dates and times; the monastery says it sells cloister tickets only at its own office, so the Spaccanapoli walk gives its price and hours. Free cancellation.

What to see

The chapel was built for the Sangro family, and Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero, remodelled it from the 1740s with a programme of statues along the nave. The guided visits run 35 to 40 minutes, and the same is enough on your own.

1. The Veiled Christ (the centre of the nave). Giuseppe Sanmartino’s marble statue of 1753 shows the dead Christ under a transparent shroud carved from the same block. The prince had wanted Antonio Corradini to make it, but Corradini died in 1752 after finishing only a terracotta model.
2. Disillusion and Modesty (the nave). The museum calls these two and the Veiled Christ the chapel’s triad of artistic excellence. Francesco Queirolo’s Disillusion of 1753 to 1754 is a man freeing himself from a marble net, and Corradini’s Modesty of 1752 is a veiled woman, made for the prince’s mother.
3. The Underground Chamber. Two glass cases hold the Anatomical Machines, the skeletons of a man and a woman with their circulatory systems almost intact, made by the Palermo doctor Giuseppe Salerno. The chamber is reached by a narrow spiral stair.
4. The floor. The prince commissioned a marble labyrinth floor in the 1760s. A collapse in 1889 damaged it, so the floor you walk on differs from his design.

The order that works: the Veiled Christ first, while the nave is quiet, then the statues round the walls, then down to the Underground Chamber. What to skip: nothing, because the chapel is small. Photographs are not allowed, so look for as long as the slot lasts.

Hours, special openings and getting there

The chapel is open daily from 9:00 to 19:00, with last entry 30 minutes before closing. It is closed on Tuesdays and on 25 December. These dates differ in the winter of 2026 to 2027:

Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, the square the chapel’s street leads off, with the spire and the apse of San Domenico Maggiore. Photo: Adam Harangozó, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Where: Via Francesco De Sanctis 19/21, off Piazza San Domenico Maggiore. The ticket office has been at Via Raimondo di Sangro 12 since 4 February 2026 while the usual premises are renovated, with the same hours. Metro Line 1 to Dante or Università; the chapel is about 2 minutes from Piazza del Gesù and 1 minute from Via dei Tribunali.
• Access: the nave with the Veiled Christ and the sacristy are wheelchair accessible. The Underground Chamber is not.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: arriving without a booking, or after the 10 minutes have passed.

Not the same statue: the Figlio Velato

Jago’s modern Figlio Velato (“Veiled Son”) is a different work, in the Cappella dei Bianchi of the Basilica di San Severo fuori le Mura in the Rione Sanità. It costs €10 (€8 for under-18s, over-65s and students), is open daily from 10:00 to 14:00 and needs no booking. It is on the same Sanità circuit as the Catacombs of Naples and the Fontanelle cemetery.

The chapel is a stop on the Spaccanapoli walk, between San Domenico Maggiore and San Gregorio Armeno, and San Gregorio Armeno is a few minutes’ walk. What to book before you go to Naples lists the other booking-only sights, 3 days in Naples places the slot round the Tuesday closure, and Naples walking tours compares the guided walks. Where to stay in Naples compares the areas.