Genoa, Italy · Limited traffic zone
Official name Zona a Traffico Limitato telecontrollata "Nervi" (Gazzolo)
In force in Genoa right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:05 · Europe/Rome
Nothing here is conditional on the clock. The zone is valid on every day of the year through the whole 24 hours, so this timetable answers "in force" whenever it is asked. What decides a driver's case at Nervi Gazzolo is the plate, not the hour.
Public holidays make no difference to the ban, and the operator says so about the hardware as well as the rule: the electronic gates listed for the city are active every day 0–24, public holidays included. Holidays do narrow some permit classes, whose windows are written "giorni feriali" — working days — which makes those days stricter for a permit holder, not looser for anyone else.
⚠️ The 08:00–13:00 goods-delivery window belongs to the other Nervi zone. "Nervi Centro" in Via Oberdan lets goods vehicles in for delivery or distribution between those hours; this chapter contains no such sentence, and the two zones must not be run together because they share a district name.
⚠️ Inside the zone there is a patch that is not governed by this timetable at all. The area of the porticciolo is excluded from the ZTL because a plain ban on transit applies there instead — stricter than the ZTL, not looser, and unaffected by holding a permit.
Nervi Gazzolo is one of nine Genoese ZTLs and a permit is issued for one ZTL or sector at a time. Centro Storico, Molo, Boccadasse, Bolzaneto, Nervi (Oberdan), Rivarolo, Vernazzola and Caracciolo are separate zones with their own boundaries.
Genoa runs a second scheme over different ground and on its own terms: the restriction on the most polluting vehicles, whose outer area is the whole comune di Genova. The ZTL rulebook expressly excludes those areas from its own scope and states that the measure acts autonomously and alongside it. Being clear of this zone says nothing about that one, and this record does not hold it.
One thing we looked for and did not find, stated rather than guessed: the Disciplinare never mentions taxis or hire cars with driver among the ZTL's own categories — the word does not occur in its 54 pages. So we do not tell a driver that arriving by taxi is exempt from this ZTL; we do not know that from the publisher, and the gap is the publisher's, not a lapse in the search.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
This is the harbour end of Nervi — Via Gazzolo dropping to Via Caboto and Via Ganduccio by the little port, where the seafront walk begins — and it is closed to unauthorised vehicles every day of the year through the whole 24 hours. There is no hour at which it opens. One camera watches it, in Via Felice Gazzolo, and the operator states that every Genoese gate is live all days 0–24 including public holidays.
The camera reads plates remotely with nobody on the spot, so an unauthorised entry is not stopped at the gate: it is recorded and dealt with afterwards by post. Inside the zone there is a tighter thing still — the area of the porticciolo, the little harbour itself, is excluded from the ZTL because an outright transit ban applies there instead, so a ZTL permit is not an answer for it.
Nervi sells a permit by the day, €11.00, and it is not a visitor's ticket: it belongs to canoe and rowing clubs based in the zone carrying their boats, to the concessionaires of the maritime state land, and to boat owners reaching the public slipway.
A visitor staying inside the zone gets in a different way and pays nothing: the accommodation holds an annual authorisation for its guests' cars and reports your plate to the operator within 48 hours of the entry. Electric vehicles are free everywhere in the city on a free annual pass, and bicycles need nothing. ⚠️ Nervi has two separate ZTLs, and this is the one by the harbour.
The other, "Nervi Centro" in Via Oberdan, runs on a shorter list of who may enter — and that list has no place for a hotel guest at all.
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "ZTL Nervi", the zone page of the company the Comune di Genova names as the responsible office for ZTL access, read together with §3.4 of the Disciplinare it links and with the operator's gate and boundary pages, all cited separately below
There is no day ticket a visitor can buy, even though Nervi is one of only three Genoese zones that prices a daily permit at all.
The permit is real: category NER_01, €11.00 a day, €20.00 a month, €30.00 for a season of six months, €54.00 a year, and both the operator and the rulebook name the closed list of people who may request it — members of clubs, associations, cooperatives and schools based inside the zone, for canoeing activity and carrying their boats; the concessionaires of the maritime state land held from the Comune di Genova, who apply on behalf of their own registered members and may hold as many annual and seasonal permits as they have berths; and people who need to reach the public slipway to transport a boat they can document as their own.
A visitor has no category to be issued one under, and offering €11.00 at the gate is not a route in — there is no gate to offer it at, only a camera.
The route that does cover a visitor is bought by the accommodation and is annual rather than daily: €27.00 for a property with 1 to 10 rooms, €54.00 for 11 to 20 and €100.00 above 20 rooms, covering all of that property's accesses every day 00:00–24:00 and valid for the ZTL or sector it belongs to. The guest pays nothing and buys nothing.
Electric vehicles are free everywhere in the city, on a windscreen pass that is itself free.
All day, every day, all year. The operator and the rulebook say it in the same words — the ZTL "Nervi" is valid on every day of the year and through the whole 24 hours — and nothing takes it off for a weekday, a weekend, a holiday or a season. The gate agrees: Genova Parcheggi states that the electronic gates listed for the city are active every day 0–24, public holidays included.
So the hour you arrive decides nothing here; whether your plate is on the authorised list decides everything. The zone's own extra category, the boat permit, is itself written for all days 00:00–24:00 rather than for a window.
Other hours in the scheme belong to general permit classes and are narrower than the zone rather than wider — wholesale customers 08:00–19:00 on working days, commercial agents 08:00–20:00 on working days, contracted services 06:00–20:00 on working days, garage customers 08:00–19:00 on working days.
Guests of accommodation and electric vehicles are the classes written 00:00–24:00. ⚠️ The 08:00–13:00 delivery window a driver may have seen for Nervi belongs to the other Nervi zone, "Nervi Centro" in Via Oberdan, and it does not apply here.
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "ZTL Nervi", the validity sentence for the Gazzolo zone, read with "I Varchi elettronici", the operator's gate page, for the statement that the gates run 0–24 on every day including holidays
The descent to Nervi's little harbour, published as a street list rather than a perimeter. The governing rulebook puts inside the ZTL: Via Gazzolo, in the stretch from house number 14 rosso to the junction with Via Caboto; and Via Caboto together with Via Ganduccio — excluding the area of the porticciolo, the little harbour, where an outright ban on transit applies instead.
It then lists separately, as a further area entitled to apply, Via Provana di Leyni between Via Caboto and Via Lega Navale, with the entitlement written house number by house number: black even numbers from 4 to the end, red even numbers from 4 to the end, black odd numbers from 17 to the end and red odd numbers from 7C to the end. ⚠️ The operator's own Confini page prints both lists under the single heading "Delimitazione dell'area", so Via Provana di Leyni reads there as part of the zone rather than as a street whose residents may apply.
The same merge happens, in the opposite direction, on the operator's Boccadasse list. We follow the rulebook on which list is which, and a driver should follow the wider reading on the ground: if you are in Via Provana di Leyni without a permit, do not rely on being outside.
The Genoese house-number system is worth knowing here, because the entitlement turns on it — Italian civic numbering in Genoa runs two series in the same street, black for dwellings and red for business premises, and the rulebook grants by both. One electronically controlled gate serves the zone, in Via Felice Gazzolo.
Nervi's other ZTL, "Nervi Centro" in Via Oberdan, is separate ground with a separate camera, and Genoa's remaining seven zones are separate again; this record does not hold them.
Comune di Genova, Direzione Smart Mobility — "Disciplina dell'accesso alle Zone a Traffico Limitato", §3.4.1.1 (streets inside the ZTL) and §3.4.1.2 (further areas entitled to apply), read against Genova Parcheggi's "Confini" page, which prints both under one heading
The authority's own map: Comune di Genova — Direzione Mobilità e Trasporti, open-data catalogue…
No Euro class lets a petrol car into the Nervi ZTL and none keeps it out: entry here turns on authorisation, not on the exhaust. The rulebook never sets an emission floor for entering any Genoese ZTL, for any fuel. What fuel does decide is the electric case.
A fully electric vehicle has free access to every ZTL in Genoa on all days 00:00–24:00 for as long as the errand strictly needs — cars, motorcycles and mopeds alike, and goods vehicles on the same terms — and is issued a single free annual windscreen pass valid across the whole city.
The pass is obligatory even though the access is free, and where a tariff is scaled by how many vehicles a household declares, electric ones are not counted in.
Emission class does reach the price of a goods-vehicle permit, where methane, LPG, hybrid or electric pays €15.00 a year, Euro 3 or better €27.00, Euro 2 or Euro 1 €60.00 and pre-Euro €300.00 — but that is the cost of a trader's permit, not a threshold for getting in. ⚠️ Genoa's actual emissions restriction is a different scheme with its own order, and the ZTL rulebook expressly puts it outside its own scope and says it operates autonomously alongside.
This record does not hold it.
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "Panoramica", the general principles of ZTL access that run across every Genoese zone: the electric-vehicle regime and the free annual pass valid city-wide
A diesel car stands exactly where a petrol one does: the Euro class changes nothing about whether it may enter the Nervi ZTL, and authorisation decides. Diesel does not appear in the ZTL access rules at all.
What does bar a vehicle here, whatever it burns, is weight: chapter 2 of the rulebook states that every type of permit in the document is issuable only to vehicles whose laden mass does not exceed 3.5 tonnes, so there is no permit above that figure anywhere in the city. ⚠️ Do not import the other limit from Genoa's Molo and Centro Storico pages.
Those two zones publish a maximum width of 2.10 metres as well, and they are the only two — all eight of the operator’s zone pages were checked for that sentence on 2026-09-22 and six returned nothing, this one among them; the Nervi zone page does not, and the string does not occur anywhere in the rulebook's 54 pages — measured on 2026-09-22.
So we state the tonnage, which is sourced and general, and we do not state a width here, which would be a figure carried across from a different zone.
A car towing a boat trailer should note the tonnage is measured laden. ⚠️ The restriction that is about diesel in Genoa is the separate scheme under Ordinanza Sindacale 256/2025, which the ZTL rulebook excludes from its scope; do not read this field as saying an old diesel is free to drive in Genoa.
Comune di Genova, Direzione Smart Mobility — Determinazione Dirigenziale n. 2023-395.0.0.-3 of 06/07/2023 approving "Disciplina dell'accesso alle Zone a Traffico Limitato", chapter 2 general conditions, letter g) on the 3.5 tonne ceiling, and §1.1 on the scope of the rulebook
Genoa does not state a figure for the offence a visitor would actually commit, and we will not supply one. Driving into a ZTL without authorisation is an offence under the Codice della Strada, not under the city's rulebook, and the operator says only that an unauthorised entry "sarà segnalato per l'applicazione delle sanzioni previste" — reported for the application of the penalties provided for.
The 54-page Disciplinare uses the word "sanzione" exactly once, in that sentence, and prices nothing.
What is worth knowing instead is how the offence is detected here, because it changes what a driver should expect: the single camera in Via Felice Gazzolo reads plates remotely with no officer present, so nobody stops you and nothing happens at the barrier — the operator states in as many words that the violation will be established later and without immediate challenge.
A second point a driver can act on: the porticciolo area inside the zone is not under the ZTL at all but under a plain transit ban, which is enforced as a transit ban and not as an unauthorised ZTL entry.
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "ZTL Nervi", the zone page: the closed list of who may hold the Nervi permit and its four prices, and the presence of AUT_09 among this zone's paid categories. Read together with the Disciplinare's §3.4.3, which carries the same list, and with categories AUT_09b and AUT_09c on guests of accommodation
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "ZTL Nervi", the zone page. It covers both Nervi zones; the Gazzolo half carries the operative statement for this record: valid every day of the year through the whole 24 hours, the remote camera enforcement with no immediate challenge, the free, contrassegno and paid category lists including AUT_09, and the NER_01 permit with its four prices and its closed list of holders. Genova Parcheggi is the company the Comune di Genova names as the responsible office for ZTL access on its own service record
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "Confini", the operator's own street-by-street delimitation of every Genoese ZTL. Its Nervi (Gazzolo) entry prints the rulebook's two lists — the streets inside the zone and the street whose residents may apply — under one heading
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "I Varchi elettronici", the operator's gate page: Nervi's cameras are in Via Felice Gazzolo and Via Oberdan, one for each of the district's two zones, and every gate listed for the city is active on all days 0–24, public holidays included
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "Panoramica", the general principles that run across every Genoese ZTL: the list of the zones, the electric-vehicle regime with its free annual pass, free access for cycles, the 48-hour regularisation for an unregistered vehicle of an authorised category, and the 3.5 tonne ceiling on every permit type
Comune di Genova — service record "Richiedere permesso di accesso ad Area ZTL". The city's own page: it names all nine Zone a Traffico Limitato and is the document that names Nervi as two of them, "Nervi (Gazzolo)" and "Nervi (Oberdan)". It also names Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. as the responsible office and as a public company the Comune created
Comune di Genova, Direzione Smart Mobility — Determinazione Dirigenziale n. 2023-395.0.0.-3, adopted and executive from 06/07/2023, approving the document "Disciplina dell'accesso alle Zone a Traffico Limitato". The governing instrument, 54 pages. §3.4 is this zone's own chapter: the two street lists, the exclusion of the porticciolo where a plain transit ban applies, the 24-hour validity, the reference to chapter 2 for general access, the three classes of boat-related holder, and Tabella 22 with the four NER_01 prices
Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-21.
A city can run more than one scheme, and they do not always answer the same question.