Santa Maria della Scala
Guide
Photo: Jastrow · Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
≈ A$16MuseumAllow 1–1.5 hPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
One of Europe's oldest hospitals, now a museum: a frescoed pilgrims' hall showing medieval hospital life, and cellars and chapels going deep underground.
A brief history
For about 900 years it cared for pilgrims, the sick and abandoned children; it only stopped working as a hospital in the 1990s.
Tips
- Best time
- Afternoon, when the day-trippers thin out
- Cost
- ≈ €9 (check)
- Allow
- 1–1.5 h
- Hours
- Usually daily except Tuesdays (check)
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Good to know
- Area
- The cathedral hill: The striped cathedral, its museums and the old hospital.
- Access
- Step-free
- Indoors or out
- Indoors: good on a hot or rainy day
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