2023-07-02 15:22:50
Time.news – From tomorrow the entrance to the Pantheon of Rome, the most visited cultural site in Italy, will be paid. The ticket price will be equal to five euros and Roman citizens will be excluded. Access will be prohibited during religious services.
This is the result of the agreement signed last March 16 by the Vicariate of Rome and the Ministry of Culture which provides for the introduction of the entrance ticket to visit the Roman monument.
Access to the faithful “for participation in religious and cult activities will be totally free and it will be the responsibility of the Ministry, through its employees, to prohibit access to visitors during the performance of these activities through special explanatory signs outside the door”, reads the note released at the time by the Vicariate.
It will also be the responsibility of the Ministry “through its own personnel, to arrange before each celebration for the positioning of cordons suitably placed in order to create an internal access corridor oriented only to the celebratory space, excluding the possibility of visiting the rest of the basilica. For the use of the basilica basilica outside the hours reserved for religious functions and pastoral activities, the Ministry will regulate the orderly flow of visitors”.
Who does the ticket money go to?
The proceeds from the ticket will be distributed as follows:
70% will go to the Ministry, which will bear the costs of ordinary and extraordinary maintenance and cleaning, also taking into account any requests for interventions that could come from the Chapter 30% to the diocese of Rome, which will use it to charitable and cultural initiatives and for maintenance, conservation and restoration activities of state-owned churches present in the diocesan territory”.
The diocese of Rome, “considering the universal value and uniqueness of the architectural structure of the Pantheon to be peculiar, which over the centuries have made it a completely unique place of worship, necessarily open to a wide use also by scholars and researchers, agrees in the introduction of the entrance ticket”, the Vicariate had added.
Indeed, as stated in the Regulation which enters into force on 3 July, “due to its singular history, Rome holds a unique artistic heritage, which flourished largely in the context of the experience of the Christian faith and the city is a destination for religious pilgrimages and it knows large tourist flows and the Church of Rome, through its pastoral bodies, must also take care of the people who in Rome are looking for testimonies of authentic beauty and of a rich history with Christian connotations, but also indebted to other traditions and cultures”.
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