Torre dei Lamberti
Dernière mise à jour le 9 novembre 2026Horaires vérifiés novembre 2026
La Torre dei Lamberti est la plus haute tour historique de Vérone, s’élevant à 84 mètres au-dessus de la piazza delle Erbe et de la piazza dei Signori. Sa construction a commencé en 1172, et des agrandissements ultérieurs lui ont donné ses bandes alternées de brique et de pierre claire.
La tour faisait partie de l’ensemble civique de Vérone. Ses cloches donnaient à la ville un rythme audible : la Rengo convoquait les conseils et sonnait l’alarme, tandis que la Marangona marquait les heures de travail et signalait les incendies.
La difficulté pour les visiteurs
The entrance is not where the tower is. You pay and go up from the Cortile Mercato Vecchio, at Via della Costa 2 — not from Piazza delle Erbe, where the tower is the most conspicuous thing in sight. That wasted circuit round the block is the commonest mistake here, and it is entirely avoidable.
Then the stairs-or-lift question, which is also a price question. It is 289 steps up the inside of the shaft, or a glass lift. Both reach the same terrace. With a VeronaCard the stairs are free and the lift costs €1.00 — so the card does not simply let you in, it lets you in on foot.
Unusually for a Verona monument, it is open every day of the year bar Christmas Day. Three of its close neighbours shut on Mondays, which is the trap in reverse: people skip the tower on a Monday assuming it is shut too.
Conseils et stratégie de visite
Quand y aller
Late afternoon is the best light from the top -- low sun across the roofscape, with the Alps sometimes visible to the north on a clear day.
Early morning is quietest; the lift queues build through the middle of the day, particularly at weekends.
Spring and autumn are the comfortable seasons. The viewing platform is fully exposed and Verona is very hot in July and August.
Winter gives the sharpest air and the clearest long views, and there is almost no queue.
Note that the bells still ring, which at close range is memorable and extremely loud.
Vérifié auprès de Torre dei Lamberti (AGEC), novembre 2026.
En profiter vraiment
Do not look for the way in from Piazza delle Erbe. The entrance is in the Cortile Mercato Vecchio, the courtyard behind the tower, and circling the block looking for a door on the square is the standard mistake.
Decide about the lift before you pay: it is charged separately, it stops short of the viewing level, and a veronaCard gets you in free without it. The last flight is stairs either way. Check the hour before you climb — the bells still ring, and at that range it is not a figure of speech.
Ce que ça coûte
What is free
The Cortile Mercato Vecchio, the courtyard the tower rises from, is open and free — you can walk in, look up the full height of the shaft and see the join between the twelfth-century work and the fifteenth-century campaign without paying anything. The tower is also the most visible thing in Piazza delle Erbe, which costs nothing either.
The boundary is the ticket desk inside that courtyard. Past it are the lift, the stairs and the viewing level.
Vérifié auprès de Comune di Verona, octobre 2026.
S'y rendre et entrer
Entrée: €6 · €4.50 reduced (groups of 15, over-60s, ages 8–14, students 14–30 with a card); €1.00 for school groups and for VeronaCard holders using the lift; free for under-8s, disabled visitors with a companion, resident over-65s, and VeronaCard holders taking the stairs
Prix vérifiés en novembre 2026
Ce qui est gratuit
Le Cortile Mercato Vecchio, la cour d’où s’élève la tour, est ouvert et gratuit — on peut y entrer, lever les yeux sur toute la hauteur du fût et voir la jonction entre l’ouvrage du XIIe siècle et la campagne du XVe sans rien payer. La tour est aussi l’élément le plus visible de la piazza delle Erbe, ce qui ne coûte rien non plus.
La limite est la billetterie dans cette cour. Au-delà se trouvent l’ascenseur, les escaliers et le niveau panoramique.
Entrer
L’entrée est dans le Cortile Mercato Vecchio, la cour derrière la tour, et non depuis la piazza delle Erbe d’où la tour est le plus visible — c’est le tour de pâté de maisons inutile le plus fréquent ici. Les tarifs et les heures de dernière entrée sont fixés par l’exploitant officiel et le billet est généralement combiné avec la galerie d’art civique installée dans le même ensemble médiéval ; la VeronaCard le couvre.
La montée
Un ascenseur couvre l’essentiel de la hauteur mais s’arrête avant le niveau panoramique, laissant une dernière volée de marches. L’escalier supérieur est étroit, le niveau du parapet est petit et l’on s’y croise difficilement : la circulation est parfois régulée aux heures d’affluence. Toute personne à mobilité réduite a intérêt à confirmer le trajet exact avant de réserver plutôt qu’à se fier au fait qu’« il y a un ascenseur ».
Le moment
Le mieux : la première heure, ou la dernière. La lumière de midi aplatit les toits et la plateforme est au plus dense quand les places en dessous le sont.
Bon à savoir : les cloches sont directement au-dessus du niveau panoramique et sonnent à bout portant. Le sommet est exposé dans les deux sens du terme — aucune ombre en été, plein vent en hiver.
Vérifié auprès de Torre dei Lamberti (AGEC), novembre 2026.
Accessibilité du lieu
The tower is not wheelchair accessible, and the lift does not change that. The operator states that the steps rule it out, and Verona’s destination portal answers its own accessibility question the same way — not accessible in a wheelchair, because of the number of steps. The glass lift covers most of the climb, the alternative being 289 steps up the inside of the shaft, but it stops short of the viewing level and leaves a final flight of stairs. The lift shortens the climb; it does not remove it.
What is reachable is the courtyard, and that is not nothing. The Cortile Mercato Vecchio the tower rises from is free and level, and the join between the twelfth-century brick and the later pale stone reads from down there without going up at all. The tower is also the most visible thing in Piazza delle Erbe, which the city describes as completely accessible.
Free entry for a disabled visitor and their companion is published by the operator, and it applies if you want the lift as far as it goes. Booking is advised for everyone, by email to torredeilamberti@agec.it or by phone on 045 9273027 during opening hours.
Note the pricing quirk, which runs the opposite way to what you would expect: a VeronaCard is free on the stairs and €1.00 with the lift.
Still not published, and not guessed: whether the route from the courtyard to the lift door is step-free, and how many steps the final flight holds.
Informations essentielles
- Type: Lieu historique, Tour
- Accès visiteurs: Ouvert aux visiteurs
- Entrée: €6
- Construit: Begun 1172; raised 1448-1464
- Construit par: The Lamberti family
- Style architectural: Roman et gothique
- Hauteur: 84 m
- Verona’s tallest tower: At 84 metres it is the highest in the city. Lightning struck it in 1403, and the damage led to the heightening carried out between 1448 and 1464.
- Two bells, two jobs: The Rengo called citizens to arms and summoned the council; the Marangona rang for fire and marked the working hours of the city’s craftsmen.
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Visite responsable
L’escalier étroit et le niveau panoramique laissent peu de place pour se croiser. S’arrêter à l’écart des points les plus fréquentés libère de la place au parapet, et le personnel peut réguler la circulation quand l’affluence ou le temps rendent le niveau supérieur moins confortable.