Booking Ahead

⭐ This is the section the whole site turns on

Milan is unusual among the cities in this network: the things people most want here are not expensive, they are rationed. Timed slots, small numbers, released in advance and gone. A visitor who books nothing will still have a good few days — and will not see the thing they came for.

What needs how much notice

• ⛔ The Last Supper — months. Fifteen-minute slots for about thirty people at a time, through an air lock, because the wall is fragile. Tickets are released in batches well ahead and go quickly. This is not a queue you can join.
• ⚠️ The Duomo terraces — days, and pick your entrance. Stairs and lift are different tickets, different prices and different doors.
• La Scala — weeks for a performance. ⭐ Cheap gallery seats are sold on the day at the box office; partial view, full sound.
• San Siro stadium tours — days, and ⚠️ they do not run on match days.
• The Pinacoteca and the Castello museums — usually walk-in, but booking skips the ticket desk.

⚠️ Official, resale, and the difference

The Last Supper's official tickets come from the state booking service. Guided tours resell the same slots with a guide attached and a markup, and when the official allocation has gone they are often the only thing left. Neither is a scam — but know which one you are buying, and be suspicious of any site implying it has slots the official one does not.

⭐ And the inversion this site recommends

Find the slot first, then build the days around it. Everyone does it the other way round, books flights and a hotel, and looks for a Last Supper ticket three weeks out. That single inversion is the difference between the two trips.

If it has already gone: the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie is free and open, and Sant'Ambrogio is ten minutes away and older.