Italy: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Brescello has one driving restriction on our books: the Attuazione delle misure in materia di qualità dell'aria (L.R. 16/2017… (low emission zone). What is a low emission zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-28, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-28.
Brescello, a municipality of 5,552 people in the province of Reggio Emilia, closes its one built-up area to older vehicles for the winter half of the year, from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027.
The ban runs Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 18:30, and it catches petrol cars up to and including Euro 2, LPG/petrol and methane/petrol up to and including Euro 2, diesel cars up to and including Euro 4, and mopeds and motorcycles up to and including Euro 2. Nothing is on sale: there is no day ticket, no charge and no payable derogation.
The fine is the national one and the order states it, a range of €168 to €679 under article 7 paragraph 13 bis of the Highway Code, with fifteen to thirty days' licence suspension for a repeat offence within two years. 🔑 This is the smallest municipality in the Emilia-Romagna family of this corpus by a wide margin — Coriano, the next smallest, has 10,455 people — and that size decides the question a visitor is most likely to have got from the headlines.
Italian national law set a structural Euro 5 diesel limitation from 1 October 2026, but it is addressed to comuni above 100,000 inhabitants, so it never reached this town at all. A Euro 5 diesel is legal here at every hour of the season. 🚨 The ban is lifted on six days — 1 November, 8 December, 25 and 26 December, 1 January and 6 January — and on days when local public transport is on strike.
That list is the whole calendar concession: there is no Sunday measure, no Saturday measure, and no emergency measure for traffic.
When Arpae's bulletin calls for emergency action the order bans the spreading of livestock slurry and restricts biomass heating, and leaves the vehicle ban exactly where it is. ⚠️ The word "festività" does not occur anywhere in the eleven pages, and a reader who searched for it would conclude there are no suspended days.
There are six; the order simply writes "sospeso nei seguenti giorni di 1° novembre…" and omits the noun. 🔑 Where the ban applies is one place, not several.
Unlike Coriano, which names eleven built-up areas, or Castellarano, which names eight, this order restricts "l'area del centro abitato di Brescello" and nothing else, and point 7 then delimits it by naming seven central streets: Piazza Matteotti, Via Panizzi, Via Nizzoli, Via Carducci, Via Giglioli, Via Cavallotti and Via De Amicis.
The plan the order calls its Annex 1 and treats as constitutive is not published by either channel that serves this act to the public, so this project holds no boundary and draws none. Electric and hybrid vehicles, cars carrying at least three people, vehicles registered for specific transport or special uses, and vehicles enrolled in the regional Move-In scheme are outside the ban altogether.