Padua, Italy · Limited traffic zone
Partly in force in Padua right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:04 · Europe/Rome
Two of these seven areas treat public holidays differently from ordinary days, and in opposite directions. Zona piazze closes six hours earlier on a "giorno festivo" — 09:00 instead of 21:00 — so a weekday holiday is the most restricted kind of day there, and this timetable will say the squares are open between 09:00 and 21:00 when the city says they are shut. Contrada Antenore goes the other way: its 08:00–09:30 ZTL window is a working-day rule, and on a holiday the streets are free until 09:30 instead. We hold no official, dated and reusable list of the public holidays currently in force in Italy — the same gap every Italian record in this corpus records — so neither shift can be applied. Sundays are already handled in the rules below, because Sunday carries the festivo treatment; what the missing calendar costs is only the holidays that fall Monday to Saturday. ⚠️ Note that here the error does not only run towards over-warning: on a weekday holiday the zona piazze rule is six hours too generous, which is the unsafe direction, and it is written down rather than assumed away. The four areas that are closed around the clock are unaffected either way.
This encodes seven areas in one timetable, and a driver is in one of them, not in all seven. Four are closed around the clock, so a verdict of "in force" is always true somewhere in the scheme and tells you nothing about the street you are on. Read the rule labels, not the headline: which of these areas your destination sits in is the whole question, and they are a few minutes' walk apart.
Borgo Altinate–piazza Eremitani is deliberately NOT in this timetable. Its page gives no hours at all — only the hours of the bollards at via Porciglia and via Zabarella — and a bollard's timetable is not a ban's timetable. The city proves that itself on the via Manin page, where a bollard active 11:00–12:30 and 21:00–01:00 stands beside an area pedestrian 00:00–24:00. Rather than copy the machine's hours onto the rule, this record leaves the area out of the schedule and says so. If you are heading for via Altinate, via Cassan, via Anghinoni, via Eremitani, via Porciglia or galleria Zabarella, this page cannot tell you when the restriction applies.
The Liston and the Ghetto are encoded as closed at every hour on the strength of one word. Their pages say "area pedonale permanente" and give no clock, and "permanente" may well be about the measure being open-ended rather than about the hours of the day. Treating them as always closed is the stricter reading and the safe direction, but it is this record's reading and not a sentence the city wrote.
The Contrada Antenore rules are two different regimes on the same streets, and only the first is a pedestrian area. Between 08:00 and 09:30 on a working day those streets are an ordinary ZTL, where a ZTL authorisation counts and the ZTL's own record applies; from 09:30 to midnight they are a pedestrian area, where it does not. The page states that at all other times — midnight to 08:00 on working days, midnight to 09:30 on Sundays and holidays — circulation is free.
Saturday is treated as a working day in the Contrada Antenore ZTL rule, and the publisher does not say so in as many words. Italian practice reads "feriali" as Monday to Saturday and "festivi" as Sundays and public holidays. If the city means Saturday to be festivo there, this timetable is an hour and a half stricter than the rule on a Saturday morning — the safe direction, and written down rather than assumed away.
Nothing here is conditional on the vehicle's emissions or on the season. What decides a case is which area you are in, the hour, and whether the plate holds an "Area pedonale" authorisation — which no visitor has.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Inside Padua's limited-traffic zone sit a further set of areas that are stricter again, and the difference matters more to a visitor than the name suggests: a ZTL authorisation is not an authorisation for these streets. They run under their own order — Ordinanza n.
464 del 25/05/2023, "Disciplina delle aree pedonali situate all'interno della zona a traffico limitato (Ztl) del centro storico" — and the permit that opens them is a different document, the "tipo 1 - Area pedonale", held by people with a private parking space behind the line. There is no visitor's version of it. ⚠️ And there is no single timetable to learn.
Each area carries its own clock, and they do not resemble each other: via San Francesco/Santa Sofia and via Manin are pedestrian 00:00–24:00 every day of the year; the piazze open and close three different ways depending on whether it is a weekday, a Saturday or a Sunday; Contrada Antenore is pedestrian from 09:30 to midnight and an ordinary ZTL for the ninety minutes before that; the Liston and the Ghetto are called permanent and given no clock at all.
So the question "is the centre of Padua walkable-only right now?" has no one answer — it depends which street you are on, and the streets are a few minutes apart. 🔑 The practical reading for a driver is simpler than the rules are. These are the streets where the city has decided a car does not belong, the enforcement is automatic where it exists, and nothing can be bought at the edge.
If your destination is inside one, the car does not go to the door: it goes to the loading bays outside the walls, or to a garage, and you walk the last part.
Where the city does open a door for a visitor it is through the accommodation, not through the driver — the ZTL rulebook covers premises "con sede in ZTL o area pedonale", so a hotel inside one of these areas can declare a guest's plate exactly as it does inside the ZTL.
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Elenco aree pedonali in centro storico", the city's own index of the scheme, last changed 16 July 2025. Read through the site's Drupal JSON:API endpoint, because the human-facing address serves an empty Angular shell (D-263)
There is no charge for entering a pedestrian area and nothing a visitor can buy in order to drive into one — no day pass, no ticket, and no barrier that sells anything.
That is not the same absence as in the ZTL, where a hotel or garage can at least register a guest's plate for free; here the instruments price authorisations only, and the authorisation that opens these streets, the "tipo 1 - Area pedonale", is tied to owning a parking space behind the line rather than to paying for access.
The commercial permits for deliveries do carry a tariff, which the delivery page links as TARIFFE RILASCIO CONTRASSEGNO, and the page itself states only that payment is by card and that a duty stamp may be due. ⚠️ This corrected itself on 2026-09-23 and the correction runs the other way from most: until that date this note said we held no figure from the tariff, because the link goes to padovanet.it, the city's old host, which is unreachable to us (B-093).
The link is still unreachable and the slug does not resolve on the host that is open to us — /api/entity?path=/tariffe-rilascio-contrassegno-ztl answers "Not Found" in 21 bytes. The tariff does not depend on it. Allegato B to deliberazione di Giunta comunale n.
239 of 17 May 2023 is published on the open host as an attachment to the temporary-title page, and it prices the pedestrian areas explicitly: the "Tipo 1 area pedonale" authorisation for the holder of a private parking space inside a pedestrian area costs 20,00 euro plus two 16-euro revenue stamps, the "Tipo 2 bis area pedonale" for a resident there without one is the same, and "Tipo 8", the accommodation with its premises in the ZTL or in a pedestrian area inside it, is also 20,00 euro plus two stamps — while the pass that accommodation then hands its own guest is listed as free. 🔑 So the tariff is held, and none of it is an entry price a visitor pays: it is what a resident, a business or a haulier pays for a permit, and the only visitor-facing line in the whole table is the free one that somebody else has to issue.
There is no single timetable. Seven areas, and the publisher gives each its own clock — four of them different from every other, two given no clock at all. Via San Francesco and via Santa Sofia: pedestrian "tutti i giorni, nella fascia oraria dalle ore 00:00 alle ore 24:00".
Via Manin: the same, "tutti i giorni feriali e festivi dalle ore 00:00 alle ore 24:00". Zona piazze — the squares, including piazza delle Erbe, piazza dei Signori and piazza dei Frutti: Monday to Friday 21:00 to 01:00 the following morning, Saturday 16:00 to 01:00, Sundays and public holidays 09:00 to 01:00, with a derogation on Saturday between 19:00 and 21:00 for market traders loading.
Contrada Antenore — via San Francesco, via del Santo and via degli Zabarella: pedestrian every day 09:30 to 24:00, and for the ninety minutes before that, 08:00 to 09:30 on working days, the same streets are an ordinary ZTL instead; between midnight and 08:00 on a working day, and midnight to 09:30 on a Sunday or holiday, the page states that circulation is free. ⚠️ Two areas are described as permanent and given no hours: the Liston with via Roma and via Umberto I ("un'area pedonale permanente") and the Ghetto with piazzetta Lucia Valentini Terrani.
This record reads those as closed at every hour, which is the stricter reading and the safe direction, and says so rather than presenting it as the publisher's wording — the publisher's wording is the single word "permanente". ⚠️ And one area, Borgo Altinate–piazza Eremitani, is given no hours in any form.
What its page carries instead is the timetable of the rising bollards at via Porciglia and via Zabarella, 11:00–15:00 and 17:00–05:00, and that is a different statement: on the via Manin page the city prints both, a bollard active 11:00–12:30 and 21:00–01:00 and an area pedestrian 00:00–24:00, which is the proof that the machine's hours are not the ban's hours.
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Area pedonale in zona piazze", the area with the most complex of the seven timetables, last changed 16 July 2025, via the site's Drupal JSON:API endpoint. Cited here for the clock; the other six areas' clocks are watched on their own pages, listed under sources
Seven pedestrian areas inside the historic centre, and the publisher's own three lists of them do not agree — so the list below is a floor rather than a total. The city's freshest statement, on the commercial-vehicle page changed 7 July 2026, names seven: "Liston - piazza dei Frutti, via Roma - Umberto I, Borgo Altinate - piazza Eremitani, Contrada Antenore, San Francesco - Santa Sofia, Manin, Ghetto".
The index page lists nine bullets, which resolve to eight links, of which two point at the same page (Eremitani and Borgo Altinate are one area) and one is broken. The sitemap carries eight area pages, and its eighth — "Liston - Piazza dei Frutti" — is the one the index does not link. The streets, as the city lists them: the Liston, via Roma and via Umberto I — via Roma between via S.
Francesco and via XX Settembre, via Umberto I between ponte delle Torricelle and via Memmo, plus via VIII Febbraio 1848, via del Municipio, via Cesare Battisti from via VIII Febbraio to riviera dei Ponti Romani, piazzetta Garzeria, via and piazza Cavour, via Gorizia, via Pietro Fortunato Calvi, via Santa Lucia, via Oberdan, via Marsilio da Padova, via and vicolo S. Andrea, via Belle Parti and piazzetta Pedrocchi.
Zona piazze — via San Francesco between riviera Tito Livio and via Roma, via San Canziano, piazza delle Erbe, via Andrea Gritti, via Fiume, piazza dei Signori, piazza dei Frutti, via San Clemente, via Nazario Sauro, via Flavio Busonera, via Boccalerie, via Pietro d'Abano, via Stefano Breda, via Aquileia and via Martiri d'Ungheria.
Contrada Antenore — via San Francesco between via Santa Sofia and riviera Tito Livio, via del Santo between via G. Stampa and via San Francesco, via degli Zabarella between via San Francesco and via C. Battisti, and vicolo Santa Margherita.
San Francesco–Santa Sofia — via San Francesco between via G. Galilei and via Santa Sofia, and via Santa Sofia between via San Francesco and via Della Pieve. Borgo Altinate–piazza Eremitani, on the east side of the Riviere — via Altinate between via degli Zabarella and via S.
Gaetano, via degli Zabarella between via Altinate and via S. Biagio, galleria Zabarella, via Cassan, via Anghinoni, via Eremitani from via Altinate to number 10, via Porciglia and piazza Eremitani between via Porciglia and via Eremitani. Via Daniele Manin between via Monte di Pietà and via Gritti.
And the Ghetto — via San Martino e Solferino between via dei Soncin and via dei Fabbri, with piazzetta Lucia Valentini Terrani. ⚠️ Piazzetta Terrani is the strictest point in the whole scheme and the page says so in one line: there, "vige il divieto di circolazione a tutti i veicoli" — a bicycle is a vehicle, and unlike everywhere else in these areas it may not be ridden through.
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Carico e scarico merci nelle aree pedonali", last changed 7 July 2026 — the freshest page the city holds on this scheme and the only one that enumerates the areas in a single sentence. Via the site's Drupal JSON:API endpoint
No Euro class is mentioned anywhere in this scheme, and none would help. A pedestrian area asks what the vehicle is and who is driving it, not what comes out of the exhaust.
The San Francesco–Santa Sofia page gives the closed list of what may pass — bicycles and kick scooters ridden at walking pace, mopeds only if pushed by hand, holders of the tipo 1 "Area pedonale" authorisation, residents without a parking space holding a tipo 2 or 2bis, goods vehicles inside the delivery windows, and vehicles authorised case by case by the ZTL office — and there is no emission class in it.
A modern petrol car is in exactly the same position as an old one: outside, unless it holds one of those authorisations.
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Area pedonale in via S. Francesco e via Santa Sofia", the area whose page publishes the closed list of permitted categories, last changed 16 July 2025, via the site's Drupal JSON:API endpoint
The same as for petrol: the Euro class decides nothing, because this is not an emissions scheme. Two vehicle properties do count, and neither is a Euro class.
Mass is the first, and it appears on the delivery side — goods vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes laden may enter under a daily authorisation within the loading windows, and above 3.5 tonnes the permit is issued by a different office of the city, the Settore Lavori Pubblici, case by case. Fuel is the second, and it buys an exemption from the windows rather than from the ban: letters h and i of point 2 of Ordinanza n.
464 admit goods vehicles running purely on electricity, and goods vehicles running on methane or LPG, without tying them to the delivery hours. ⚠️ Three things narrow that. The methane and LPG case has an end date — the order set it at 31 December 2025 and ordinanza n.
2025/62/1346 of 27 November 2025 moved it to 31 December 2027, amending the ZTL order in the same breath; the electric case has none. Both carry a condition a driver will not guess: when the vehicle is parked, the registration document, or a copy of it, must be displayed face-up on the dashboard so that the fuel type can be read from outside.
And neither opens a pedestrian area that is closed by automated physical barriers while those barriers are up — the rising bollards are excepted in the same sentence that grants the freedom. ⚠️ Padua does sit in the Po basin, where winter diesel bans operate in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, and nothing in this record should be read as saying otherwise or as saying so.
We hold no current source for a Padua antismog scheme — the city's own pages on it stop at the 2019/2020 season and one from April 2021 — and a basin-wide agreement is not a rule a driver can be told about without the city's own instrument.
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Carico e scarico merci nelle aree pedonali": the mass threshold that divides the two permit routes, and the office that issues the heavier one. Last changed 7 July 2026, via the site's Drupal JSON:API endpoint
The city does not state what an unauthorised entry into a pedestrian area costs, and we are not carrying the ZTL's figure across to it.
Padua publishes one page on fines for this part of the city — "Multe e ricorsi per transiti abusivi nella Ztl" — and both its title and its operative sentence name the ZTL alone: "Per il transito abusivo (accesso senza autorizzazione) nella zona a traffico limitato (Ztl) è prevista la sanzione di 80 euro più spese procedurali e di notifica." It says nothing about the aree pedonali, which are a separate order, and none of the seven area pages names an amount. 🔑 The framework order itself has now been read, and it settles the question in the same direction: Ordinanza n.
2023/62/0464 of 25 May 2023 runs to 35 825 characters of operative text across twenty-two numbered clauses and closes with the formula "Penalità a carico dei trasgressori a termini di legge" — penalties as set by law — without naming a euro figure anywhere in it. ⚠️ This corrects, rather than merely confirms, what this note said before: until 2026-09-23 it recorded that the order was published only on padovanet.it and was therefore unreachable to us under B-093.
That was true of the link the area pages print, and it was not true of the document. The city's JSON:API resolves the old host's slug to a copy on the host that is open to us, and the order is cited in full among the sources below.
So the fine stays real and unknown rather than absent — and it is now unknown for a measured reason rather than for want of the document: the order exists, we have read it, and it sets the penalty by reference to national law instead of naming a sum.
What has not changed is the warning: do not assume it is the ZTL's 80 euro: that figure is watched on this corpus for the ZTL record, where the publisher does state it, and stretching it one order further would be our arithmetic rather than Padua's.
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, the seven area pages read together with "Carico e scarico merci nelle aree pedonali" (last changed 7 July 2026) for the delivery windows and the accommodation category. The permit classes are as each area page states them; the accommodation duty is the one the ZTL Disciplinare imposes, which by its own wording covers premises in an area pedonale inside the ZTL
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Elenco aree pedonali in centro storico": the city's index of the scheme, nine bullets resolving to eight links, one of which is broken. Last changed 16 July 2025, via the site's Drupal JSON:API endpoint
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Carico e scarico merci nelle aree pedonali": the enumeration of the seven areas, the delivery windows, the 3.5-tonne split between two issuing offices, and the accommodation category. Last changed 7 July 2026 — the freshest page in this scheme
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Area pedonale in zona piazze": the squares, their three-way timetable and the Saturday market derogation, under Ordinanza n. 434 del 19/05/2023. Last changed 16 July 2025
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Area pedonale 'Contrada Antenore'": the only one of the seven that is a pedestrian area for part of the day and an ordinary ZTL for the rest, with the hours of both and the hours it is free. Last changed 16 July 2025
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Area pedonale in via S. Francesco e via Santa Sofia": pedestrian 00:00–24:00 every day, and the closed list of vehicle categories that may still pass. Last changed 16 July 2025
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Area pedonale in via Manin": pedestrian 00:00–24:00 every day, printed on the same page as a bollard active 11:00–12:30 and 21:00–01:00. The page that settles what a bollard timetable is and is not. Last changed 16 July 2025
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Area pedonale 'Liston', via Roma, via Umberto I": the largest of the seven by street count, described as permanent and given no clock. Last changed 16 July 2025
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Area pedonale 'Liston - Piazza dei Frutti'": the older page for the Liston streets, still live and still named as a current area by the city's 2026 commercial-vehicle page, and contradicting its newer sibling on whether a bicycle may be ridden. Last changed 6 December 2024
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Area pedonale Ghetto (via San Martino e Solferino e piazzetta Terrani)": the strictest point in the scheme, where the ban reaches every vehicle including bicycles. Last changed 16 July 2025
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, "Area pedonale 'Borgo Altinate - Piazza Eremitani'": the one area of the seven whose page states no hours at all, only the timetable of its two bollards. Cited so that the gap is watched rather than merely asserted. Last changed 16 July 2025
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, Ordinanza dirigenziale n. 2023/62/0464 of 25 May 2023, "Disciplina delle aree pedonali situate all'interno della zona a traffico limitato (Ztl) del centro storico", in force from 29 May 2023. The framework order for all seven areas: the twenty-two operative clauses, the authorisation classes including the tipo 1 and tipo 2 bis, the 48-hour regularisation, the round-the-clock closure of piazza dei Frutti between via Breda and via Oberdan, and the penalty formula. Signed by the Capo Settore on 25 May 2023
Comune di Padova — Settore Mobilità, ordinanza n. 2025/62/1346 del 27/11/2025. One instrument amending two orders at once: point 16 of ordinanza n. 2023/62/0437, which governs the ZTL, and point 2, letter i of ordinanza n. 2023/62/0464, which governs these pedestrian areas. It carries the methane and LPG goods-vehicle concession from 31 December 2025 to 31 December 2027, and records why — stalled fleet renewal, limited range and cost in electric and hydrogen vans, and a refuelling network not yet dense enough
Comune di Padova — "Tabella", Allegato B alla deliberazione di Giunta comunale n. 239 del 17/05/2023, the tariff for every class of authorisation. It prices the pedestrian areas in their own rows — "Tipo 1 area pedonale" for the holder of a private parking space inside one, "Tipo 2 bis area pedonale" for a resident there without one, and "Tipo 8" for an accommodation with its premises in the ZTL or in a pedestrian area inside it — and separately prices at zero the pass such an accommodation hands its own guest
Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-21.
A city can run more than one scheme, and they do not always answer the same question.