Italy: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Imola has one driving restriction on our books: the Limitazioni alla circolazione nel centro abitato di Imola (BO) — misure… (low emission zone). What is a low emission zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-30, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-30.
Imola closes the whole of its built-up area to older vehicles for the winter half of the year, from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027. Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 18:30, the ban 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.
On an ecological Sunday the same window applies and diesel reaches Euro 5. When Arpae's bulletin calls for emergency measures the window widens to 08:00–19:00, on any day of the week, again reaching diesel Euro 5. Nothing is on sale: there is no day ticket, no charge and no payable derogation.
The fine is set by national law and this order prints it, a range of €168 to €679, with fifteen to thirty days' licence suspension for a repeat offence within two years. 🔑 With 69,702 residents at 1 January 2026 this is the third-largest scheme in the Emilia-Romagna family after Modena and Piacenza, and the zone is the whole centro abitato rather than a town-centre block. 🚨 The exception that makes that workable is the largest in the family and it is a road network, not a list of side streets: point 9 lets a banned vehicle enter the built-up area anyway, "esclusivamente per raggiungere i parcheggi scambiatori serviti dal servizio pubblico" and to reach the trunk routes to the other provincial capitals and to the A14 motorway entrance, over forty-seven named streets and eleven numbered itineraries running to the hospital car parks, the railway station, the Autodromo paddock and two supermarkets. 🚨 AND MOVE-IN IS NOT AN EXEMPTION HERE ON A SUNDAY — IT IS ON THE BANNED LIST.
Point 2.6 names vehicles enrolled in the regional telematics scheme among the classes forbidden on an ecological Sunday, and point 8.1 does the same for the emergency measures; point 10.4 grants the exemption "Solo relativamente alle limitazioni strutturali di cui al punto 1".
That is the clearest statement of Move-In's reach anywhere in this family, and it is the opposite of what a driver would infer from the word "exemption". ⚠️ One thing this order does NOT do is say which Sundays are ecological Sundays. It bans on "le DOMENICHE ECOLOGICHE comprese nel periodo" without naming them, and then names ten days on which the ban is suspended.
The suspension list is what this record publishes; the Sunday calendar is discussed under hours and is not asserted as a fact the publisher stated.