The IAT tourist information office is the perfect place to explore Albenga, and if you'd like, you can even climb the tower for a guided tour and admire the historic center from a different perspective.

IAT Contacts
- Telephone: 335.5366406
- Email: iat@comune.albenga.sv.it

Morning
Monday to Friday 8:00-13:00; Saturday and Sunday 10:00-13:00

Afternoon
Monday to Sunday 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Holidays
Morning 10:00-13:00; Afternoon 15:00-18:00.

Closed December 25th and January 1st.

The IAT information point located in Piazza del Popolo, at the Literary Café in the gardens, is always available. It is open from Monday to Sunday from 6:00 to 00:00 and can be reached by telephone on 0182 558444 .

Call IAT

Magical Transparencies

OPENING HOURS
- Tuesday to Sunday: 9.30am-1pm and 3pm-6.30pm
closed on Mondays

RATES
Full price ticket: €8.00

Reduced Entrance: €6.00
- to minors under 14 years of age and to those over 65 years of age;
- to groups of at least 4 people;
- university/academy students by presenting their enrollment certificate for the current academic year;
- to university/academy professors;
- to school teaching staff of all levels;
- to holders of the “Piemonte Musei” card;
- to Touring Club members;
- to Endas members;
- to holders of the Ligurian Riviera Tourist Card.

Discounted Entrance: €5.00
- to those who visited another museum in the civic network on the same day (upon presentation of their ticket).

Groups (minimum 10 people – price per person) :

  • WITH GUIDED TOUR BY OUR OPERATOR
    >18 years €10.00;
    <18 years €7.00;

  • WITH GUIDED TOUR CONDUCTED BY AN EXTERNAL GUIDE
    > 18 years €6.00;
    < 18 years €5.00.

Ingauno Civic Museum

Free.

Civic Tower

OPENING HOURS
- MONDAY TO FRIDAY 11:00 AM
- SATURDAY AND SUNDAY from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 15:00 to 18:00

RATES
Full price admission €5

Reduced €4
- to minors under 14 years of age and to those over 65 years of age;
- to groups of at least 4 people;
- to holders of the Piemonte Card and discounted museums

Discounted €3
- to those who visited another museum in the civic network on the same day (presenting the ticket)
- to school groups of at least 15 people (< 18 years old)
- to Costa Crociere groups
- to Tourist Card holders and Touring Club members.

Diocesan Museum and Baptistery

Open every day (until September 30th) – closed on August 15th
Ticket office at Via Episcopio 9 – ground floor of the Diocesan Museum
For opening days and times, please visit http://museo.diocesidialbengaimperia.it/

RATES
Full admission
Museum and Baptistery combined: €10.00
Museum only: €8.00
Baptistery only: €7.00

Reduced ticket
For under 18s, university students with a university ID up to 25 years old, teachers, over 70s, groups of more than 12 people, membership card holders of the Diocesan Museum of Albenga, full-price ticket holders of the Alta Valle Arroscia – Oratorio della Ripa Museum, and affiliated members (Ligurian Riviera Tourist Card; Piedmont, Lombardy, and Aosta Valley Museum Pass; COOP; FAI; Fiat 500 Club Italia; Touring Club Italiano - one member and one non-member companion).

Museum and Baptistery combined: €8.00
Museum only: €7.00
Baptistery only: €6.00

Tickets for individual visitors can be purchased at the Diocesan Museum ticket office.

A separate section of the Alta Valle Arroscia Museum of Sacred Art is also open, located inside the Oratorio della Ripa, a Gothic church built around 1370 by Benedictine monks and rich in 15th- and 16th-century frescoes. Precious works of art are housed inside: the Last Supper by Domenico Piola, the Annunciation by Pievese artist Giulio Benso, the Madonna and Child with Saints by Gregorio De Ferrari, and the extraordinary sculptural group of the Baptism of Jesus, a wooden masterpiece by Anton Maria Maragliano.
For tickets and opening times, please visit http://museo.diocesidialbengaimperia.it/ .

Archaeological area of San Calocero

Reservations are required to access the site. Please call +39 0182 571443 or email info@palazzooddo.it . Guided tours are available on other days of the week, but reservations are required at least 24 hours in advance for groups of at least five people.

RATES
Full price ticket: €8.00

Reduced Entrance: €6.00
- to minors under 14 years of age and to those over 65 years of age;
- to groups of at least 4 people;
- university/academy students by presenting their enrollment certificate for the current academic year;
- to university/academy professors;
- to school teaching staff of all levels;
- to holders of the Ligurian Riviera Tourist Card.

Discounted: 5.00
- to those who visited another museum in the civic network on the same day (upon presentation of the ticket);

Groups (minimum 10 people – price per person):

  • WITH GUIDED TOUR BY OUR OPERATOR
    >18 years €10.00 ;
    <18 years €7.00;

  • WITH GUIDED TOUR CONDUCTED BY AN EXTERNAL GUIDE
    > 18 years €6.00;
    < 18 years €5.00.

Free Entry
- children under 6 years of age;
- to disabled people and to a family member or other companion who can demonstrate their membership in social and health care services.
- to European Union tourist guides in the exercise of their professional activity, upon presentation of a valid license issued by the competent authority;
- to tourist interpreters from the European Union when their services are required alongside the guide, upon presentation of a valid license issued by the competent authority;
- to the Ministry staff;
- to members of ICOM (International Council of Museums);
- to guides of groups or parties, upon reservation;
- to students of the advanced training courses of the Ministry's Schools (Central Institute for Restoration, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, School for Mosaic Restoration);
- to teachers enrolled in fine arts academies or corresponding institutes of the European Union, by showing the certificate of enrollment for the current academic year;
- instructors of undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs in the following faculties: architecture, cultural heritage conservation, educational sciences, or literature and philosophy with a focus on archaeology or art history. The same discounts are available to instructors and students of corresponding faculties or programs established in European Union member states. Free admission for instructors upon presentation of a valid ID;
- to art history teachers at high schools, upon presentation of a suitable document;
- to journalists who are up to date with their membership fees, upon presentation of a suitable document proving their professional activity (see DD of 07/09/2016 DG-Museums);
- for study or research purposes certified by Italian or foreign schools, universities, academies, research institutes, and cultural institutions;
- to licensed European Union tourist guides. (See circular no. 20/2016, DG-Museums)