Driving in Brescia

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Brescia has one driving restriction on our books: the Misure permanenti per la limitazione del traffico veicolare (Regione… (low emission zone). What is a low emission zone?

What it means for your car

Petrol or LPG. Euro 1 and below, across petrol, methane and LPG alike, in both of the region's bands. The permanent measures set no further petrol step: there is no Euro 2, Euro 3 or Euro 4 petrol line anywhere in them, and the phase-in that was to start on 1 October 2026, and that the region postponed to 1 October 2027 on 28 September 2026, was written for diesel only. Nothing about a petrol, methane or LPG vehicle changed either way. A petrol vehicle fitted with a natural-gas or LPG system, from the factory or retrofitted and including bi-fuel installations that keep the petrol tank, is excluded from the ban outright provided the vehicle is of class Euro 2/II or better. Two-stroke mopeds and motorcycles are governed by their own rule rather than by fuel, and it is harsher than any car line here: Euro 0 two-strokes are banned across the entire region, seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day.
Diesel. Euro 4 and below. The region bans diesel of Euro 0, Euro 1/I, Euro 2/II and Euro 3/III in both Fascia 1 and Fascia 2 municipalities, and then bans Euro 4/IV diesel as well in Fascia 1 and in the Fascia 2 municipalities over 30 000 inhabitants, which the region now names as four — Varese, Lecco, Vigevano and Abbiategrasso (⚠️ this list read five until 28 September 2026, when S. Giuliano Milanese was dropped from it). Brescia is Fascia 1 — the region's band list names it in the ELENCO COMUNI FASCIA 1, and the legend describes Fascia 1 as the Milan, Bergamo and Brescia agglomerations plus the Pavia, Lodi, Cremona and Mantua provincial capitals and their belt municipalities — so the diesel floor here is Euro 5. 🚨 THE EURO 6 STEP WAS TWO DAYS AWAY AND HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO 1 OCTOBER 2027. Until 28 September 2026 the governing act was d.G.R. n. 4843 del 28/07/2025, which confined a Euro 5/V diesel step to "Comuni aventi popolazione superiore ai 100.000 abitanti (Milano, Brescia, Monza e Bergamo)" and phased it by vehicle category, starting with M1 cars on 1 October 2026. On 28 September 2026 the region adopted d.G.R. XII/6846, which resolves «il rinvio delle limitazioni alla circolazione per i veicoli diesel Euro 5 al 1° ottobre 2027» in implementation of decreto-legge 28 settembre 2026, n. 167, and whose Allegato 1 «modifica e sostituisce l'Allegato 1 della d.G.R n. 4843 del 28/07/2025». ✅ Read on 2026-09-29, that replacement Allegato 1 lists the banned classes in full and stops at Euro 4/IV diesel: there is no Euro 5 row in it, and its scope section names Fascia 1, Fascia 2 and the 30 000-inhabitant threshold but no 100 000-inhabitant threshold anywhere. The region's own page states the consequence in terms: «non entrano in vigore dal 1° ottobre 2026 le limitazioni per i veicoli Euro 5 diesel previste dalla delibera n. 4843 del 28 luglio 2025, mentre restano confermate le limitazioni per le altre categorie fino a Euro 4 diesel». ⚠️ The later phases of the 2025 scheme fell with the first. That decision also set M2, N1 and N2 for 1 October 2027 and N3 and M3 for 1 October 2028; since its Allegato 1 has been replaced outright rather than amended date by date, this record states no future date for them. 🚨 Brescia's own page does not carry that step. Read on 2026-09-22 it states the permanent classes as Euro 0 and 1 petrol/gas and Euro 0 to 4 diesel and stops there, with no Euro 5 clause and no reference to 1 October 2026 — it is the 2024-2025 edition and has not been reissued. A diesel of any class fitted with an abatement system effective against both particulates and nitrogen oxides is excluded, but the bar is high and was deliberately raised: the system must hold real-driving emissions at or below the values set for Euro 6 D / Euro VI diesel, and since 1 October 2024 a particulate-only filter no longer counts for any vehicle.

Sources last read on 2026-09-29, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-11-05.

The schemes, one by one

• Misure permanenti per la limitazione del traffico veicolare (Regione… Low emission zone

  Brescia does not run its own low-emission zone. The restriction a visitor meets here belongs to Regione Lombardia, it covers the built-up area of the whole municipality, and it is in force every month of the year from Monday to Friday between 07:30 and 19:30.

  Brescia is in Fascia 1, the stricter of the region's two bands, so the diesel floor is Euro 5 — a diesel car of Euro 4 or below may not circulate in those hours — and petrol, methane and LPG vehicles are caught at Euro 1 and below. 🚨 THE EURO 5 DIESEL STEP THAT WAS TO ARRIVE ON 1 OCTOBER 2026 HAS BEEN POSTPONED BY A YEAR, AND THIS PAGE CARRIED THE OLD DATE UNTIL 29 SEPTEMBER 2026.

  Brescia is one of the four Lombard municipalities over 100 000 inhabitants that the 2025 regional decision named for that step. On 28 September 2026, acting on decreto-legge 28 settembre 2026, n. 167, the region resolved by d.G.R.

  XII/6846 «il rinvio delle limitazioni alla circolazione per i veicoli diesel Euro 5 al 1° ottobre 2027», and its Allegato 1 — which replaces the 2025 one outright — now stops at Euro 4/IV diesel and contains no Euro 5 clause and no 100 000-inhabitant clause at all. ✅ So a Euro 5 diesel car may circulate here through the 2026-2027 winter.

  Nothing is for sale — no charge, no visitor day ticket, no permit — and the only ways through are the region's closed lists of exempt vehicles and exempt journeys, or MoVe-In, a year-long black-box scheme that trades the clock for a kilometre allowance.

  What makes this page worth reading before you arrive is Brescia's own carve-out, which the council publishes in detail: the Tangenziale Sud is a regional-interest R1 road and therefore outside the ban altogether, and the council names the exact approach roads that let a banned vehicle reach four park-and-ride metro car parks without breaking it. ⚠️ Read the diesel section here rather than the council's own page: the council's text is still the 2024-2025 edition and says nothing about the Euro 5 step.

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