Italy: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Coriano has one driving restriction on our books: the Provvedimenti e misure di prevenzione per la salvaguardia della qualità… (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.
Coriano, a municipality of 10,455 people in the province of Rimini, closes its built-up areas 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. 🚨 Two things separate this order from every other one of this season in this corpus, and both are absences a visitor would otherwise fill in wrongly. The first: it suspends the ban on NO day at all.
Its five neighbours name a list of days of festivity on which the ban lifts — eight in Modena, seven in Piacenza and Fidenza, six in Maranello, five in Mirandola, an open-ended example list in Quattro Castella — and this order names none. The words "sospeso" and "festività" do not occur in it. Christmas Day 2026 and 1 January 2027 both fall on a Friday, and this order bans on both.
The second: there is no Sunday measure either, which it shares with Fidenza, Mirandola and Quattro Castella, and it reaches that result the way the last two do rather than the way Fidenza does.
The word "domenica" IS in this document, once, in the preamble, where the order recites that a vehicle enrolled in the regional Move-In scheme may not drive "in occasione delle domeniche ecologiche, ove adottate con specifica ordinanza" — where adopted by a specific ordinance. This one adopts none.
A reader who searched the whole file for the stem would get a hit and conclude the opposite of the truth. 🔑 Nor does the ban widen when the air is bad: the order attaches Arpae's emergency bulletin, issued for the province of Rimini on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, to a ban on spreading livestock slurry and a restriction on biomass heating, and orders no emergency measure for traffic at all.
A Euro 5 diesel is outside this scheme at every hour of the season. ⚠️ Where the ban applies is the part of this order a visitor should read twice. It is not one town: point 1 names the centro abitato of Coriano and ten separate frazioni, from Cerasolo Ausa on the SS 72 to Sant'Andrea in Besanigo, and point 7 then delimits nine of those eleven by naming the roads that bound them.
Puglie and Colombarina are banned and never delimited, and the drawing that would settle it — the planimetry the order calls its Annex 1 — is published by neither of the act's two publishers. Electric and hybrid vehicles, cars carrying at least three people, vehicles registered for specific transport or special uses, and vehicles enrolled in Move-In are outside the ban altogether.