Italy: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Perugia has one driving restriction on our books: the Divieto di transito ai Bus Turistici (heavy vehicle ban). The published charge is €10.00 per day. What is a heavy vehicle ban?
Sources last read on 2026-09-23, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-21.
€10.00 per day.
Perugia's hill town is closed to tourist coaches, and the rule is keyed to a single number: 9 metres. Ordinanza n. 1259 of 26 November 2008 bans the transit of tourist coaches — which the city's own vademecum defines as vehicles longer than 9 m — through Perugia's urban area, and it does not ban them by weight, by emission class or by the hour.
A coach either is over 9 m or it is not. What makes this a usable page rather than a prohibition notice is that the city publishes the alternative route in the same breath, street by street and junction by junction.
Without a permit, a coach may enter the city only from the "Madonna Alta" exit of the Perugia–Bettolle raccordo and only along Via Centova, and from there it may drive either to a destination outside the ban area or to the Pian di Massiano car park — from which the Minimetrò, the city's automated people mover, climbs to the historic centre.
That is the route a coach carrying visitors is expected to take, and it works without any paperwork at all.
With a permit, the route changes completely: the coach enters from the "Perugia Piscille" exit instead and drives to the Bus Terminal in Piazza Partigiani, for the length of a drop-off and no longer, unless Busitalia — which runs the terminal — has separately authorised a long stay inside it. ⚠️ Piazza Italia, the balcony at the top of the old town that a driver might assume is the obvious set-down point, is barred to anything over 9 m in every case, permit or no permit; the vademecum states it as a standing exception rather than as a detail.
The permit costs €10.00 a day and is bought online at least five working days ahead, paid through PagoPA and printed for the dashboard. That price is new: Deliberazione di Giunta n. 283 of 25 June 2025 introduced it, and the same deliberation records that until then no payment at all was required for bus permits.
The €10.00 is also not the whole bill, and the second half of it is now a number rather than a warning: the terminal is run by Busitalia, whose own published prospectus charges an unscheduled tourist coach €6.00 for a 15-minute set-down slot, or €18.00 for the first hour and €12.00 for each hour after that if a longer stay is authorised at all.
A single drop-off at the foot of the old town therefore starts at €16.00 between the two of them. And the permit buys eligibility rather than a place: the prospectus ranks tourist coaches behind local and long-distance service buses and admits them only if a stall happens to be free. 🆕 Two things this page said it could not tell you until 2026-09-23, and both are now answered from the ordinance itself.
The ban runs "dal lunedì alla Domenica 0-24" — every hour of every day, with no night window and no season.
And the area is the centro abitato of Perugia with two named exceptions, the via Settevalli axis outbound from via Dottori and the via Cortonese axis outbound from viale Centova, which is why the compulsory approach runs along via Centova in the first place. ⚠️ What changed was our reading, not the city's publishing: three cycles recorded Ordinanza n.
1259/2008 as an unreadable scan, and it is not one — it carries a full text layer set glyph by glyph, and scripts/pdf-all-literals.py recovers every word of it. The one thing that stays out of reach is the planimetria attached to the order, which is a drawing of a legal boundary the city does not publish as coordinates.