Genoa, Italy · Limited traffic zone
Official name Zona a Traffico Limitato "Nervi Centro" (Oberdan)
In force in Genoa right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:04 · Europe/Rome
The zone itself is not conditional on the clock. It 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 an ordinary driver's case in Nervi Centro is which category the vehicle belongs to, not the hour.
⚠️ The 08:00–13:00 goods window is deliberately not encoded as a rule above, and the reason matters. It is not an hour at which the zone opens: it is a cap on one category, goods vehicles making a delivery or distribution, and the rulebook says expressly that what paragraph 2.5 provides for MER_01 and MER_02 is limited to those hours here. Writing it into the timetable would tell every driver the ban lifts in the morning, which is the opposite of what the publisher wrote.
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.
🚨 The category list, not the clock, is what makes this zone strict. Nervi Centro is the only Genoese ZTL whose chapter admits an enumerated subset of the rulebook's paragraphs rather than the whole of chapter 2, and AUT_09 — under which guests of hotels and other accommodation are authorised everywhere else in the city — is absent from it. A driver who has read about Genoa's hotel route and assumes it works here would be wrong, and nothing at the roadside would say so.
Nervi Centro is one of nine Genoese ZTLs and a permit is issued for one ZTL at a time. Nervi (Gazzolo), a few hundred metres away at the harbour, is a separate zone with a separate camera, a more generous category list and a €11.00 daily boat permit that does not exist here. Centro Storico, Molo, Boccadasse, Bolzaneto, Rivarolo, Vernazzola and Caracciolo are separate again.
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.
Nervi Centro is one street — Via Guglielmo Oberdan between Piazza Antonio Pittaluga and Viale Goffredo Franchini, the main street of Nervi village — 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 Oberdan, 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. 🚨 This is the strictest of Genoa's nine ZTLs for a visitor, and the reason is not the hours but the list of who may enter.
Every other Genoese zone inherits the rulebook's full set of categories; Nervi Centro is written the other way round, as a named subset — emergency and police, public transport, disabled-badge vehicles, liveried public-service vehicles on operational work, a narrow slice of unliveried contractor vehicles, electric vehicles, residents, and holders of a private parking space with a regular vehicle crossing.
The category that admits guests of hotels and B&Bs everywhere else in Genoa, AUT_09, is not in the list. So the answer a visitor most wants — "my hotel will put my plate on the list" — is no here, unless the property has its own off-street parking inside the zone. Goods vehicles get the one clock-based opening: delivery or distribution between 08:00 and 13:00.
Electric vehicles are free, and bicycles need nothing anywhere. ⚠️ Nervi has a second ZTL, at the harbour end in Via Gazzolo, and it is not this one.
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; its Nervi Centro half lists the paragraphs of the Disciplinare that apply here, which is what makes this zone a subset. Read together with §3.10 of the Disciplinare and with the operator's gate and boundary pages, all cited separately below
There is no daily charge here and no daily permit of any kind. Three Genoese zones price one — Boccadasse at €11.00 for boat work, Nervi Gazzolo at €11.00 for canoe clubs and slipway users, and the general trade categories in the rulebook's chapter 2 — and none of them reaches Nervi Centro, because this zone's access rule admits only a named list of paragraphs and the paragraphs that carry daily permits are not on it.
Nor is there an annual route a visitor's accommodation could buy: the category under which hotels and B&Bs elsewhere in Genoa register their guests' plates, AUT_09, is absent from this zone's list.
The only paid permits that reach Nervi Centro are AUT_01 for residents and assimilated persons, AUT_02 limited to people who hold a private parking space with a regular vehicle crossing, and AUT_06 for public-utility vehicles for as long as the work takes. A visitor who is not staying at a property with its own off-street parking inside the zone has nothing to buy, at any price, on any timescale.
All day, every day, all year. The operator says it in the same words it uses for the district's other zone — the ZTL "Nervi centro Oberdan" 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.
One opening in this zone does turn on the clock, and it is the only one in Genoa's ZTL scheme that is written as an entry window rather than as a permit-class window: goods vehicles may enter Nervi Centro for delivery or distribution between 08:00 and 13:00, and the rulebook says expressly that what it provides at paragraph 2.5 for the goods categories MER_01 and MER_02 is limited to those hours here.
That is narrower than the general scheme, not wider — elsewhere those categories are not capped to a morning. ⚠️ It is a delivery window, not an open door: a car is not a veicolo merci, and arriving at 09:00 changes nothing for an ordinary visitor.
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "ZTL Nervi", the Nervi Centro half of the zone page: the validity sentence and the 08:00–13:00 goods window, read with "I Varchi elettronici" for the statement that the gates run 0–24 on every day including holidays
One street, one stretch: Via Guglielmo Oberdan between Piazza Antonio Pittaluga and Viale Goffredo Franchini. The rulebook and the operator's boundary page give the same delimitation in the same words, which makes this the only Genoese ZTL boundary in this corpus where the two publishers agree exactly — elsewhere, notably at Boccadasse, they do not.
There is no list of further streets whose residents may apply, and no second stretch. One electronically controlled gate serves the zone, in Via Oberdan. ⚠️ Nervi has two ZTLs about 500 metres apart and they are not interchangeable.
This one is the village's main street; the other, "Nervi (Gazzolo)", is the descent to the little harbour at Via Gazzolo, Via Caboto and Via Ganduccio, and it runs on a materially more generous list of who may enter. A permit is issued for one ZTL at a time, so a Gazzolo permit is not a Nervi Centro permit and the reverse is also true.
Genoa's other seven zones — Centro Storico, Molo, Boccadasse, Bolzaneto, Rivarolo, Vernazzola and Caracciolo — are separate ground again, and this record does not hold them.
Comune di Genova, Direzione Smart Mobility — "Disciplina dell'accesso alle Zone a Traffico Limitato", §3.10.1, the delimitation of the area of the Z.T.L. "Nervi Centro", which Genova Parcheggi's "Confini" page restates word for word
The authority's own map: Comune di Genova — Direzione Mobilità e Trasporti, open-data catalogue…
No Euro class lets a petrol car into Nervi Centro and none keeps it out: entry here turns on which category your vehicle belongs to, 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, and here it matters more than anywhere else in the city, because it is one of the few categories this zone admits at all.
The rulebook's paragraph 2.2.2.3, category ESE_06, is on Nervi Centro's list: 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 is issued a single free annual windscreen pass valid across the whole city. The pass is obligatory even though the access is free.
Emission class does reach the price of a goods-vehicle permit elsewhere in the scheme, where methane, LPG, hybrid or electric pays €15.00 a year 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, read with the Nervi Centro paragraph list, which includes category ESE_06
A diesel car stands exactly where a petrol one does: the Euro class changes nothing about whether it may enter Nervi Centro, and the category 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 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. ⚠️ 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 Oberdan 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.
This zone deserves the warning more than the others, because it is the one where a visitor is most likely to believe they are covered and be wrong: the accommodation route that works everywhere else in Genoa does not exist here, and nothing at the roadside will tell you that.
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "ZTL Nervi", the Nervi Centro half of the zone page: the enumerated paragraph list that defines who may enter, including AUT_02 limited to holders of a private parking space with a regular passo carrabile, category ESE_06, and the 08:00–13:00 goods window. Confirmed against §3.10 of the Disciplinare, cited separately
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "ZTL Nervi", the zone page. It covers both Nervi zones; the Nervi Centro 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 enumerated list of Disciplinare paragraphs that govern access here, and the 08:00–13:00 goods window. 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 (Oberdan) entry restates the rulebook's §3.10.1 word for word — the only Genoese boundary in this corpus where the two publishers agree exactly
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, 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. §3.10 is this zone's own chapter and it is the last one in the document: the single-street delimitation, the enumerated paragraph list that governs access, and the sentence limiting the goods categories MER_01 and MER_02 to 08:00–13:00 here
Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-21.
A city can run more than one scheme, and they do not always answer the same question.