What to settle before you leave

The rules that actually cost money

A restricted traffic zone fine reaches a foreign licence plate months after the drive, and it is the most expensive avoidable mistake a visitor makes in Italy. The pages in this section give the sign, the hours it applies, the exceptions, and whatever the municipality publishes about enforcement, each with the date it was last verified against the source.

Dates that close things

Italian law fixes a set of national public holidays, and Easter Monday is one of them while Good Friday is not. Pages that depend on the calendar name the day they mean and the law that sets it, because that difference decides whether a museum, a public office or a border service is open on the morning you need it.