Czechia: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Polička has one driving restriction on our books: the Vybraná místa – vjezd s motorovým vozidlem do vybraných míst a částí… (limited traffic zone). The published charge is 20.00 CZK per day. What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-15, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2027-03-15.
20.00 CZK per day.
Polička's walled old town is closed to motor vehicles by traffic sign, and obecně závazná vyhláška č. 5/2023 prices the permit that lets you past. Čl.
3 names seventeen places and draws nothing: the streets Fortna from the junction with Parkány, Komenského, Kostelní, Masarykova, Nová, Otakarova, Pálená, Riegrova, Růžová, Šaffova from house number 233, Štěpničná, Tylova, Tyršova from house number 1, U Masných krámů and Václavská, plus the two squares — náměstí B.
Martinů, the square around the plague column and the church where Bohuslav Martinů was born, and Palackého náměstí. Two of the seventeen start at a point rather than at a corner: Šaffova is charged only from čp. 233 and Tyršova only from čp.
1. The fee is 20 Kč for each vehicle and each started day, and there is no weekly, monthly or annual alternative at all — the tariff is one line, which makes Polička the flattest scheme of the eleven Czech towns published here. The fee falls due when the permit is issued.
A one-off permit for a single day, or part of one, needs no declaration filed at all, which is the concession Františkovy Lázně and Pec pod Sněžkou also make; for anything longer the declaration comes at the latest with the application and a change must be reported within 30 days rather than the usual 15.
Nobody pays who is registered as living in a charged place or owns property there, nor their close family, spouses and children, nor anyone using property there for business or public-benefit activity, nor holders of a ZTP or ZTP/P card and their companions. Čl. 7 odst.
2 then exempts four more groups no other published Czech town lists together: holders of a parking card, traders at markets held in the charged places under the town's market rules, guests staying in paid accommodation inside them, and anyone driving in for a wedding or a funeral. Čl.
8 is the warning attached to that first group — paying this charge does not buy you a parking card, which is a separate instrument of the town under its own nařízení. The ordinance took effect on 1 January 2024 and repealed the town's č. 10/2019; the national register records it as Platné, and as version 2 of the filing.