Cupola
Cupola is the Italian word for dome and the name of the St Peter's ticket that climbs it. The climb starts with a lift or stairs to the roof and continues on foot inside the double shell.
Example
The cupola ticket with the lift still leaves 320 steps in a narrow curved passage, so the lift option is a shorter climb, not an easy one.
Sources: basilicasanpietro.va
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